ISBN:
9781789205503
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
244 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
WYSE Series in Social Anthropology 10
Abstract:
We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. The traits of Selfishness and selflessness address the ‘proper’ and ‘improper’ relationship between one’s self and others. The work they do during periods of social instability and cultural change is probed in this original, interdisciplinary collection. Contributions range from an examination of how these concepts animated the eighteenth-century anti-slavery campaigners to a dissection of the way middle-class mothers’ experiences illustrate gendered struggles over how much and to whom one is morally obliged to give.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Self, Selfish, Selfless -- Linda L. Layne -- Chapter 1. Taking the Measure of ‘Selfishness’ and ‘Selflessness’ in the Early Twenty-First-Century US and UK -- Linda L. Layne -- Chapter 2. ‘Sentiment Has Struggled with Selfishness’: Selfishness, Sensibility and Gender in the Late Eighteenth-Century British Antislavery Campaign -- G.J. Barker-Benfield -- Chapter 3. Selfless Advocacy? Profeminist Men’s Movements in Late Twentieth-Century Britain -- Lucy Delap -- Chapter 4. ‘Doing the Right Thing for My Child’: Self Work and Selflessness in Accounts of British ‘Full-Term’ Breastfeeding Mothers -- Charlotte Faircloth -- Chapter 5. Sexism, Separatism and the Rhetoric of Selfishness: Single Mothers by Choice in the US and UK -- Susanna Graham and Linda L. Layne -- Chapter 6. Selfish Masturbators? The Experience of Danish Sperm Donors and Alternatives to the Selfish/Selfless Divide -- Sebastian Mohr -- Chapter 7. Inroads into Altruism -- Marilyn Strathern -- Chapter 8. On Being Selfish – Or Not: Explorations of an Idea from the Mountains of Oaxaca and the Alaskan Tundra -- Barbara Bodenhorn -- Conclusion: Starting Points: Modest Contributions to the History and Anthropology of Moralities and Ethics -- Linda L. Layne -- Index --
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