“A Higher Power to Feel”
“A Higher Power to Feel”
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“更高的感受能力”
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2000
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Bret E. Carroll
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作者：
Bret E. Carroll
本文考察了性别认同、精神和情感之间的关系，并通过分析19世纪中期的唯心主义者在宗教救赎叙事中运用悲伤的方式，探讨了维多利亚时代美国男性悲伤这一基本上未被研究的主题。这些人参与了维多利亚时代中产阶级关于性别的更广泛的文化对话，他们认为，悲伤和唯灵论的承诺可以抵消市场革命和家庭生活意识形态对男性身份的压制作用，并通过鼓励情感表达和专注于家庭生活的男性风格来加强男性权力。通灵的男人们公开展示了他们自省“悲伤工作”的私人经历，以完成塑造适合维多利亚时代崛起的中产阶级的男子气概概念的“文化工作”。
This article examines the relationship among gender identity, spirituality, and emotion and addresses the largely unexamined subject of male grief in Victorian America by analyzing the way in which mid—nineteenth-century Spiritualist men deployed grief in their narratives of religious redemption. Participating in a broader cultural conversation about gender in the Victorian middle class, these men suggested that grief and Spiritualist commitment would counteract the repressive effects of the market revolution and the ideology of domesticity on male identity—and reinforce male power—by encouraging an emotionally expressive and domestically engaged style of manhood. Spiritualist men publicly presented their private experiences of introspective “grief work” to do the “cultural work” of shaping a conception of masculinity suitable to a rising Victorian middle class.