Myra Mendible is Professor in the Languages and Literature Department at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers. She is editor of From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Culture and Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign.

Introduction: American Shame and the Boundaries of Belonging / Myra MendiblePart 1: Scarlet Letters: Gender, Race, and Stigma1. Shame Before the Law: Affects of Abortion Regulation / Karen Weingarten2. Sex, Shame, and the Single Life: Bond and the "Black Shirley Temple" / Daniel McNeil3. Neoliberal Crimmigration: The "Common Sense" Shaming of the Undocumented / Leah Perry4. The Look of Sovereignty: Style, Shame, and Politics in the Young Lords / Frances Negrón-MuntanerPart 2: Disciplining the Body Politic: Domestic and Foreign Policy5. Suicide as an Invocation of Shame in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist / Renee Lee Gardner6. Fat, Shame, and the Disciplining Practices of Health Expertise / Meghan Griffin7. Citizenship at Odds: Disability, Liberalism and the Shame of Interdependence / Noel GloverPart 3: Bodies on Display: Performing Shame in Visual Arts8. Shame and Shitting: Postfeminist Episodes in Contemporary Hollywood Films / Madeline Walker9. Distancing Maneuvers: Collective Shame in Iraq War Films / Mike Rancourt10. Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill, Shame, and the Rise of the "Slasher" Trope in Halloween / Anthony Carlton Cooke11. Shaming and Reclaiming Women's Sexuality through Cinematic Depictions of Masturbation / Megan Tagle Adams12. Dieting for the Sake of Art: Eleanor Antin, Rachel Rosenthal, and Faith Ringgold / Emily NewmanContributorsIndex