Moral panics, sex panics [electronic resource] : fear and the fight over sexual rights / edited by Gilbert Herdt.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Intersections (New York, N.Y.)Publication details: New York : New York University Press, c2009.Description: x, 294 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.760973 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ76.8.U6 M67 2009eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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