Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

New York : New York University Press, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-

Description

x, 294 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Intersections

Uniform Title

Intersections (New York, N.Y.)

Subjects

• Sexual minorities > United States > History
• Gender identity > United States > History
• Gay rights > United States > History
• Ethical absolutism > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 09-3567

ISBN

• 9780814737224 (cl : alk. paper)
• 0814737226 (cl : alk. paper)
• 9780814737231 (pb : alk. paper)
• 0814737234 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009000174

OCLC

276816861

Title

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

Imprint

New York : New York University Press, c2009.

Series

Intersections

Intersections (New York, N.Y.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-

Research Call Number

JFE 09-3567