Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 294 p)
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0814737234
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0814737226
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9780814737231
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9780814737224
Series Statement:
Intersections
Content:
Finalist for 2010 LGBT Anthology Award from the Lambda Literary Awards. Unwed teen mothers, abortion, masturbation, pornography, gay marriage, sex trafficking, homosexuality, and HIV are just a few in a long line of issues that have erupted into panics. These sexual panics spark moral crusades and campaigns, defining and shaping how we think about sexual and reproductive rights. The essays in Moral Panics, Sex Panics focus on case studies ranging from sex education to AIDS to race and the "down low," to illustrate how sexuality is at the heart of many political controversies. The con
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Moral Panics, Sexual Rights, and Cultural Anger; 2. The Religious Right and the Reshaping of Sexual Policy: Reproductive Rights and Sexuality Education during the Bush Years; 3. Black Sexuality, Indigenous Moral Panics, and Respectability: From Bill Cosby to the Down Low; 4. The "Gay Plague" Revisited: AIDS and Its Enduring Moral Panic; 5. Gay Marriage: The Panic and the Right; 6. Postcolonial Amnesia: Sexual Moral Panics, Memory, and Imperial Power; 7. Transient Feelings: Sex Panics and the Politics of Emotions; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E
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FG; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y;
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Introduction : moral panics, sexual rights, and cultural anger / Gilbert Herdt -- The religious right and the reshaping of sexual policy : reproductive rights and sexuality education during the Bush years / Diane di Mauro and Carole Joffe -- Black sexuality, indigenous moral panics, and respectability : from Bill Cosby to the down low / Cathy J. Cohen -- The "gay plague" revisited : AIDS and its enduring moral panic / Gary W. Dowsett -- Gay marriage : the panic and the right / Gilbert Herdt -- Postcolonial amnesia : sexual moral panics, memory, and imperial power / Saskia Eleonora Wieringa -- Transient feelings : sex panics and the politics of emotions / Janice M. Irvine.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814737224
Additional Edition:
Print version Moral Panics, Sex Panics : Fear and the Fight over Sexual Rights
Language:
English
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