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Girls Blush, Sometimes: Gender, Moral Agency, and the Problem of Shame

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Jennifer C. Manion
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Abstract

Few contemporary philosophers discuss the ways in which the emotion of shame may be gendered. This paper addresses this situation, examining Gabriele Taylor's (1985 and 1995) account of genuine vs. false shame. 1 argue that, by attending to the social pressures placed on many women to conform to a certain vision of femininity, an analysis of the shame to which women may be prone shows that Taylor's account of shame remains incomplete.

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Hypatia , Volume 18 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Women, Art, and Aesthetics , Fall 2003 , pp. 21 - 41
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Copyright © 2003 by Hypatia, Inc.

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