The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

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Part of Berlant’s groundbreaking “national sentimentality” project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification.

Artist / Author	Lauren Berlant
Publisher	Duke University Press
ISBN	978-0-8223-4202-1
Reference	P1781
Date	2008
Type	Publication

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