Moral Panics, Sex Panics : : Fear and the Fight over Sexual Rights /

Moral Panics, Sex Panics : : Fear and the Fight over Sexual Rights / / ed. by Gilbert Herdt.

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 cam...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Cohen, Cathy J.,
Dowsett, Gary W.,
Herdt, Gilbert,
Irvine, Janice M.,
Joffe, Carole,
Wieringa, Saskia Eleonora,
di Mauro, Diane,
HerausgeberIn:
Herdt, Gilbert,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Intersections ; 8
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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