The Politics of Humiliation: A Modern History

ISBN-13: 9780198820314 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 352 str.

Ute Frevert

Opis

The story of how humiliation has been used as a means of coercion and control in the modern age - from the shaving of the heads of alleged women collaborators in occupied France to the social media pillorying of the 21st century.

Recenzje

From flogging to Facebook, from humiliation administered by the 17th-century state to 21st-century society's self-generated online shaming, from honour to dignity: that is the story of modernity in Ute Frevert's masterful telling. But of course it's less linear, more complicated DL and more interesting. A dazzling book, full of surprises. Get a copy and read it. Or shame on you!

O autorze

Ute Frevert is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. She is the author of many books, including Women in German History (1990), Men of Honour: A Social and Cultural History of the Duel (1995), and Emotions in History: Lost and found (2011).