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Moral panics, sex panics : fear and the fight over sexual rights /

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Other Authors: Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2009]
Series:Intersections: transdisciplinary perspectives on genders and sexualities
Subjects:
Gay rights > United States > History.
Gender identity > United States > History.
Sexual minorities > United States > History.
Ethical absolutism > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : moral panics, sexual rights, and cultural anger / Gilbert Herdt
  • The religious right and the reshaping of sexuality : reproductive rights and sexuality education during the Bush years / Diane DiMauro & 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.