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Title Moral panics, sex panics [electronic resource] : fear and the fight over sexual rights / edited by Gilbert Herdt.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2009.

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Description x, 294 p.
Series Intersections
Intersections (New York, N.Y.)
Bibliography 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Gay rights -- United States -- History.
Gender identity -- United States -- History.
Sexual minorities -- United States -- History.
Ethical absolutism -- History.
Sexual rights -- United States -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780814737224 (cl : alk. paper)
0814737226 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814737231 (pb : alk. paper)
0814737234 (pb : alk. paper)

 
    
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