The new temperance
Subtitle: the American obsession with sin and vice
By: David Wagner.
Publisher: Westview Press; WestviewPress
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Temperance -- United States; Behavior modification -- United States; Political correctness -- United States; Conservatism -- United States; United States -- Moral conditions
Description: The New Temperance contrasts the new obsession with personal behavior in America during the last two decades with the brief period of relative freedom in the 1960s and early 1970s and suggests strong consistencies with our past. In particular, the late twentieth century appears to have re-created the mood of the Victorian and Progressive Periods, when social movements such as the Temperance, Social Purity, and Vice and Vigilance movements held sway.

The New Temperance questions the constant mantra in the media and in political debates about the dangers of personal behavior and challenges America's love affair with repression.
Notes: Includes index.