Moral Panics, Sex Panics : Fear and the Fight over Sexual Rights / ed. by Gilbert Herdt.
Cohen, Cathy J., contributor.; Dowsett, Gary W., contributor.; Herdt, Gilbert, contributor.; Herdt, Gilbert, editor.; Irvine, Janice M., contributor.; Joffe, Carole, contributor.; Wieringa, Saskia Eleonora, contributor.; di Mauro, Diane, contributor.
2009
HQ76.8.U6 M67 2009
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Title Moral Panics, Sex Panics : Fear and the Fight over Sexual Rights / ed. by Gilbert Herdt.
ISBN 9780814790847
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814790847.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814790847.001.0001 doi
Call Number HQ76.8.U6 M67 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.7
Summary Finalist for 2010 LGBT Anthology Award from the Lambda Literary AwardsUnwed 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 contributors also reveal 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. Moral Panics, Sex Panics provides new and important insights into the role that key moral panics have played in social processes, arguing forcefully against the political abuse of sex panics and for the need to defend full sexual and reproductive rights.Contributors: Cathy J. Cohen, Diane DiMauro, Gary W. Dowsett, Janice M. Irvine, Carole Joffe, and Saskia Eleonora Wieringa.
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Added Author Cohen, Cathy J., contributor.
Dowsett, Gary W., contributor.
Herdt, Gilbert, contributor.
Herdt, Gilbert, editor.
Irvine, Janice M., contributor.
Joffe, Carole, contributor.
Wieringa, Saskia Eleonora, contributor.
di Mauro, Diane, contributor.
Series Intersections ; ; 8
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780814737224
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. The Religious Right and the Reshaping of Sexual Policy
3. Black Sexuality, Indigenous Moral Panics, and Respectability
4. The "Gay Plague" Revisited
5. Gay Marriage
6. Postcolonial Amnesia
7. Transient Feelings
About the Contributors
Index

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