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Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts:

Shyness, Power, and Intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995
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NYU Press, 2003 - Psychology - 215 pages

Since World War II Americans’ attitudes towards shyness have changed. The women’s movement and the sexual revolution raised questions about communication, self-expression, intimacy, and personality, leading to new concerns about shyness. At the same time, the growth of psychotherapy and the mental health industry brought shyness to the attention of professionals who began to regard it as an illness in need of a cure. But what is shyness? How is it related to gender, race, and class identities? And what does its stigmatization say about our culture?

In Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts, Patricia McDaniel tells the story of shyness. Using popular self-help books and magazine articles she shows how prevailing attitudes toward shyness frequently work to disempower women. She draws on evidence as diverse as 1950s views of shyness as a womanly virtue to contemporary views of shyness as a barrier to intimacy to highlight how cultural standards governing shyness reproduce and maintain power differences between and among women and men.

  

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Examines how Americans' views of shyness have evolved throughout recent decades, particularly in relation to gender. The 1950s view of shyness as a womanly virtue differs greatly from modern views. As ... Read full review

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Contents

ONE Introduction
1
TWO The Emotional Culture of Shyness from
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Shyness and Heterosexuality
46
FOUR Assertive Women and Timid Men?
67
FIVE Shyness from Nine to Five
83
SEVEN Conclusion
119
Data and Methods
133
Sampled SelfHelp Books
153
Notes 111
171
Bibliography
189
Index 211
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About the author (2003)

Patricia McDaniel is a research fellow at Berkeley’s Public Health Institute.

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