Shame and Gender in Transcultural Contexts

Elisabeth Vanderheiden is a pedagogue, theologian, intercultural mediator. She is the CEO of the Global Institute for Transcultural Research and the President of Catholic Adult Education in Germany as well as the managing director of Catholic Adult Education Rhineland-Palatinate.. Her publishing activities focus not only on pedagogy, in particular on the further education of teachers and trainers in adult education, but also on the challenges and opportunities for digitalisation. She has edited books on intercultural and transcultural issues. Her most recent publications deal with shame as a resource, and with mistakes, errors and failures and their hidden potential in the context of culture and positive psychology. Her current research projects deal with love in transcultural contexts, life crises, and humour in the context of Positive Psychology 2.0. Other foci of her work are design thinking in transcultural contexts as well as Ikigai. Her work has received numerous awards,including the William B. Gudykunst Outstanding Book Award from the International Academy for Intercultural Research in July 2023 for the International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives, co-edited with Claude-Hélène Mayer. Claude-Hélène Mayer is a Professor in Industrial and Organisational Psychology at the Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management at the University of Johannesburg. She is a Semester at Sea Alumni (SASFA22) and a Board member of the International Academy of Intercultural Research. Further, she is an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Psychology (Positive Psychology) and for the International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management. She holds doctoral degrees in psychology, Management and Cultural Anthropology. Her Venia Legendi is in psychology with a focus on work, organisational and cultural psychology from Europa Universität, Viadrina, Germany. Her research areas include transcultural mental health, salutogenesis, transcultural conflict management and mediation, women in leadership, shame and love across cultures, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and psychobiography. Her teaching areas are cross-cultural psychology, mental health, organizational theory, systems and design thinking, coaching, positive psychology, organizational behaviour and transcultural conflict management and mediation.

• Gender-Specific Facets of Shame as a Resource Within and Between Cultures .- PART 1 Structural Dimensions of Gender-Specific Facets of Shame. Is Shame a Female Emotion? The Role of Social Power .-  Body Shame and Gender . Political Use of Negative Affects: Positivity of Shame in Intersectional Feminism .-  Women's Experience of Shame, Poverty and Gender. An Empirical Investigation .- The Key to the Lock of Shame,Shame in Educational Contexts as Resource for Women’s Empowerment. PART 2 Gender-Specific Facets of Shame Within Specific Cultural Contexts. Experiences of Shame and Gender in the Cultural Contact Zones of Morocco, Portugal and Spain .- Female Activism, Tribalism and Shame in the Arabian Gulf J.- Izzat: Analysis of the Concept as a Category of Positive Psychology  .-  “Sexual Carrions" Multiple Jeopardy of Stigma, Shame, and Pollution .- Exploring the Gender Dimension of Shame in India - An Empirical Study of Shame and Its Gender Implications in the Indian Cultural Context .- “Trans”-ness and Shaming: A Thematic Analysis of Shame Among South Asian Transmen/ Transmasc ..-  Reconstructing Shame by the Wearing of Hijab: Experience of New Muslim Converts In Malaysia Ainurliza .-  Gender Differences, Cancel Culture, and Shame as Resource.- PART 3 Gender-Specific Facets of Shame in Health Contexts.Shame, Men, and Addictions Recovery: Possibilities for Transformation .- South African Women’s Experience of Giving Birth – Guilt, Shame, Resilience, and Culture Related To The ‘Goddess Myth’. .- Gender Facets of Organisational Shame as Transformational Resource for Health and Well-being in the Fifth Industrial Revolution.