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The Emotional Self

A Sociocultural Exploration
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Our concepts of our emotions are integral to our wider conception of ourselves, and are used to give meaning and provide explanation for our lives. They are central to both social life and relationships with others. In this book, Deborah Lupton brings together empirical research and social and cultural theory to examine the nature of the emotional self in contemporary western societies. The analysis emphasizes the emotional self as a dynamic project continually shaped and reshaped via discourse, embodied sensations, memory, personal biography and interactions with others and objects. The author's interdisciplinary approach draws on a number of sociocultural approaches - sociology, anthropology, gender studies and social psychology - that adopt a poststructuralist perspective. She places strong emphasis on language and discourse as they construct and express concepts of the self and the emotions, whilst also acknowledging the sensual, embodied and unconscious dimensions of emotional experience.
Deborah Lupton is SHARP professor in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney, working in the Center for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Center and leading the Vitalities Lab. She is the author/co-author of 17 books, the latest of which are Digital Sociology (Routledge, 2015), The Quantified Self (Polity, 2016), Digital Health (Routledge, 2017), Fat, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2018), and Data Selves (Polity, 2019). She is a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and holds an honorary doctor of social science degree awarded by the University of Copenhagen.
Introduction Thinking through Emotion Theoretical Perspectives Recounting Emotion Everyday Discourses Emotions, Bodies, Selves The `Emotional Woman' and the `Unemotional Man' Emotions, Things and Places Conclusion
x`This addition to a growing number of texts which approach emotions and emotionality from a social constructionist perspective is well written, scholarly, accessible and interesting.... There is both breadth and depth to this work.' - Feminism and Psychology
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