Crying : the natural and cultural history of tears

Introduction - Why tears?. 1 Tears of pleasure, tears of grace, and the weeping hero. 2 The crying body. 3 The psychology of tears. 4 Men and women, infants and children. 5 Cultures of mourning. 6 Tears of revenge, seduction, escape, and empathy. 7 Fictional tears. Conclusion: The end of tears

'...looks at the way people have understood weeping from the earliest known representation of tears in the fourteenth century B.C. through tears found in today's films, advertisements, and therapies.'

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