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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gilbert H Herdt |
| ISBN: | 9780814737224 0814737226 9780814737231 0814737234 9780814737323 0814737323 |
| OCLC Number: | 276816861 |
| Description: | x, 294 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | Intersections (New York, N.Y.) |
| Responsibility: | edited by Gilbert Herdt. |
Abstract:
Focuses on case studies ranging from sex education to AIDS to race to illustrate how sexuality is at the heart of many political controversies. This book reveals how moral and sexual panics have become a mainstay of certain kinds of conservative efforts to win elections and gain power in moral, social, and political arenas.
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"This is a very important book. If you want to understand the state of sexuality politics in this country- and have a hope of reversing moral panics and public lies- you need to read this book!"
-Pepper Schwartz, author of "Prime: Adventures and Advice about Sex, Love and the Sensual Years"
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