Meg Beech

Shame and women's bodily autonomy

My project is focused on the experience of shame. I'm particularly interested in how shame as an experience differs between men and women, and the influence this has on their respective behaviours/autonomy. 

Some of my research questions are:

• Are there different kinds of shame? 
• Does gender influence how shame is experienced and why? 
• To what extent does shame limit women's autonomy with regard to: their body, movement and spatiality and their behaviour?

 

Supervisors

Professor Sorin Baiasu and Dr Jannine Jobling