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Shrinking violets and Caspar Milquetoasts [electronic resource] : shyness, power, and intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995 / Patricia A. McDaniel.

By: McDaniel, Patricia (Patricia A.).
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: American social experience series: Publisher: New York ; London : New York University Press, c2003Description: viii, 215 p. : ill.Subject(s): Bashfulness -- History | Bashfulness -- Social aspects -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 155.2/32 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The emotional culture of shyness from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century -- "Build him a dais" : shyness and heterosexuality from the roles of the fifties to the rules of the nineties -- Assertive women and timid men? : race, heterosexuality, and shyness -- Shyness from nine to five -- "Intimacy is a difficult art" : the changing role of shyness in friendship.
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155.2/32 (Browse shelf) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-209) and index.

The emotional culture of shyness from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century -- "Build him a dais" : shyness and heterosexuality from the roles of the fifties to the rules of the nineties -- Assertive women and timid men? : race, heterosexuality, and shyness -- Shyness from nine to five -- "Intimacy is a difficult art" : the changing role of shyness in friendship.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.