Everyone is NOT doing it
Subtitle: abstinence and personal identity
By: Jamie L. Mullaney.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects; Self-denial -- Social aspects; Taboo; Temptation; Temperance; Sexual abstinence; Vegetarianism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Seeing not-doing : time, place, and language; title: Historical frames of abstinence; title: Contemporary abstainers; title: "You gotta run the whole tape" : pathways to abstinence; title: Determining what counts : abstinence thresholds; title: Fire walking; title: Fence building; title: Negotiating abstinence strategies; title: Verbal performances of abstinence; title: Conclusion.