Moral panics, sex panics [electronic resource] : fear and the fight over sexual rights / edited by Gilbert Herdt.
Contributor(s): Herdt, Gilbert H | ebrary, Inc.
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BookSeries: Intersections (New York, N.Y.): Publisher: New York : New York University Press, c2009Description: x, 294 p. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Gay rights -- United States -- History | Gender identity -- United States -- History | Sexual minorities -- United States -- History | Ethical absolutism -- History | Sexual rights -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.760973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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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