Title: Moral panics, sex panics : fear and the fight over sexual rights /
Authors: Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-
Publisher: New York University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Gay rights United States History.; Gender identity United States History.; Sexual minorities United States History.; Ethical absolutism History.; Sexual rights United States History.
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.