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Pages: 304
Authors: Gilbert Herdt
Categories: Political Science
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This work focuses on case studies ranging from sex education to AIDS to race to illustrate how sexuality is at the heart of many political controversies.
The Moral Panics of Sexuality
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Pages: 244
Authors: B. Fahs
Categories: Social Science
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A provocative feminist analysis of the moral panics of sexuality, this interdisciplinary edited collection showcases the range of historical and contemporary cr
The Myth of Moral Panics
Language: en
Pages: 341
Authors: Bill Thompson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-11 - Publisher: Routledge

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This study provides a comprehensive critique - forensic, historical, and theoretical - of the moral panic paradigm, using empirically grounded ethnographic rese
We Believe the Children
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Pages: 353
Authors: Richard Beck
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-04 - Publisher: PublicAffairs

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A brilliant, disturbing portrait of the dawn of the culture wars, when America started to tear itself apart with doubts, wild allegations, and an unfounded fear
Moral Panics
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: Kenneth Thompson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-06-23 - Publisher: Routledge

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It is widely acknowledged that this is the age of moral panics. From the Bulger case to mad cow disease, newspaper headlines continually warn of some new danger