Moral panics, sex panics
Subtitle: fear and the fight over sexual rights
By: edited by Gilbert Herdt.
Contributors: Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-
Series: Intersections: transdisciplinary perspectives on genders and sexualities
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780814737224; 9780814737231
Subjects: Gay rights -- United States -- History; Gender identity -- United States -- History; Sexual minorities -- United States -- History; Ethical absolutism -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : moral panics, sexual rights, and cultural anger / Gilbert Herdt; title: The religious right and the reshaping of sexuality : reproductive rights and sexuality education during the Bush years / Diane DiMauro & Carole Joffe; title: Black sexuality, indigenous moral panics, and respectability : from Bill Cosby to the down low / Cathy J. Cohen; title: The "gay plague" revisited : AIDS and its enduring moral panic / Gary W. Dowsett; title: Gay marriage : the panic and the right / Gilbert Herdt; title: Postcolonial amnesia : sexual moral panics, memory and imperial power / Saskia Eleonora Wieringa; title: Transient feelings : sex panics and the politics of emotions / Janice M. Irvine.