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Source : Manchester University PressUn livre qui s'annonce important pour penser l'histoire de la honte honorable et infamante des femmes à la fin du Moyen Âge. Publication annoncée en novembre. Ci-dessous sa présentation sur le site de l'éditeur (Manchester University Press)DescriptionPracticing shame investigates how the literature of medieval  England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating  hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame. A combination of  inward reflection and outward comportment, this practice of  'shamefastness' was believed to reinforce women's chastity of mind and  body, and to communicate that chastity to others by means of  conventional gestures. The book uncovers the paradoxes and complications  that emerged from these emotional practices, as well as the ways in  which they were satirised and reappropriated by male authors. Working at  the intersection of literary studies, gender studies and the history of  emotions, it transforms our understanding of the ethical construction  of femininity in the past and provides a new framework for thinking  about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come.Introduction 1 Show and tell: shame and the subject of women's bodies 2 Lessons in shame 3 Shame under suspicion, shame under siege 4 Death or dishonour: the problem of exemplary shame 5 Shamefast Hoccleve and shameless craving Afterword IndexMary C. Flannery is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Oxford