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    Maud Allan, the Cult of the Clitoris and the Future of Britain
    (Brill Academic Publishers, 2017) Patterson A.
    Scholars have recently begun to show interest in the figure of the Canadian dancer Maud Allan. Both a fictionalised account of her life and a more scholarly biography have been produced in the last few years. These build on Philip Hoare's Oscar Wilde's Last Stand (1997), which focuses on the famous libel trial in which Maud Allan sued the owner of The Imperialist, Noel Pemberton Billing. He had insinuated that she was a lesbian, inferred by the term 'cult of the clitoris,' and elided such sexual practices with treason at a time, 1918, when the First World War had reached a critical stage. Often compared unfavourably with Isadora Duncan as a performer, Maud Allan is a fascinating figure who became, both at the height of her fame as a dancer on the Edwardian stage and at the later libel trial, a representative of female evil. Indeed, this chapter will explore how Allan, like the author of Salome, Oscar Wilde, became a floating signifier of national otherness representing everything that the conservative British right hated, including sexual deviance, continental decadence, literary obscenity, national betrayal and liberal sympathy, the latter especially connected in Maud Allan's case with her close, and many suspected, lesbian relationship with Margot Asquith, the wife of the Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. In many respects, Allan was viewed as representative of a nationally debilitating decadence that many hoped the war would destroy. The chapter focuses on representations of her life and work and the very public construction of Allan as a symbol of foreign evil that many felt threatened the very future of the nation. © koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2017.
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    How Shame and Guilt Influence Perspective Taking: A Comparison of Turkish and German Cultures
    (Brill Academic Publishers, 2022) Söylemez S.; Koyuncu M.; Wolf O.T.; Türkan B.N.
    Shame and guilt are negative social emotions that are sensitive to culture, and findings from past research have suggested that shame impairs perspective-taking cognitive ability more than guilt does. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is a lack of research that has considered culture and experimentally tested the effect of shame and guilt on perspective-taking. Taking an experimental perspective, this study aimed to examine how shame and guilt states affect perspective-taking performance in two different cultures (Turkish vs. German). Data from German and Turkish female college students provided support for the effect of emotional state and culture on perspective-taking, but there was no interaction between them. We discussed the results and possible explanations for them in light of the literature. © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2022.