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Everyone is NOT doing it : abstinence and personal identity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mullaney, Jamie L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Identity (Psychology) > Social aspects.
Self-denial > Social aspects.
Taboo.
Temptation.
Temperance.
Sexual abstinence.
Vegetarianism.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Seeing not-doing : time, place, and language
  • Historical frames of abstinence
  • Contemporary abstainers
  • "You gotta run the whole tape" : pathways to abstinence
  • Determining what counts : abstinence thresholds
  • Fire walking
  • Fence building
  • Negotiating abstinence strategies
  • Verbal performances of abstinence
  • Conclusion.