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1st HarperPerennial ed. |
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245 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents |
Burt, Loni, and our way of life -- Want a child? Take my son -- Cultural baggage -- Housework is obsolescent -- The wretched of the hearth -- Sex and the married woman -- The economics of cloning -- Fun with cults -- Oh, those family values -- Why don't we like the human body? -- Stamping out a dread scourge -- The naked truth about fitness -- So's your old lady -- A new boom to die for -- Coming of age -- Women would have known -- Feminism confronts Bobbittry -- Sorry, sisters, this is not the revolution -- What do women have to celebrate? -- Making sense of la difference -- Kiss me, I'm gay -- The decline of the universe -- Prewatched TV -- Blood on the temple steps -- Gone with the wind -- Readers' block -- Camelot redux -- Star power -- Won't somebody do something silly? -- The blight of the living dead -- Paying attention to O.J. -- The triumph of trash -- Teach diversity... with a smile -- Down to the fundamentals -- Why the religious right is wrong -- Maintaining the crime supply -- Why do they keep coming? -- Tired and out of compassion -- We're number one! -- Onward, Christian lite! -- Kicking the big one -- Welfare : a white secret -- S-M as public policy -- How labor's love was lost -- An epidemic of Munchausen's syndrome -- Real babies, illegitimate debates -- Honor to the working stiffs -- Fear of Easter -- The warrior culture -- Who's on Main Street? -- Gulf War II -- Somalia... the ratings war -- Battlin' Bill's initiation rite -- Willy/Woody -- Jones v. Clinton -- Haiti explained -- Tale of a whale. |
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Popular culture.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
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