The New Temperance: The American Obsession With Sin And Vice

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The war on drugs ? the campaigns against smoking cigarettes ? v-chips to control what children watch on TV ? censoring the Internet and Calvin Klein jeans ads?bipartisan lectures about the dangers of teen sex ? constant warnings about food and fat ? all are examples of what David Wagner terms the ?New Temperance.?The New Temperance contrasts the ne

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367318796
ISBN-10: 0367318792
Pagini: 236
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 1 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

The new temperance; DJ vu all over again; temperance and the social construction of risk; the slippery slope, or scaring them straight; getting lean and mean - the middle-class return to respectability; manufacturing consensus - the politics of puritanism; from loyalty oaths to urine tests.

Notă biografică

David Wagner is associate professor of social work and sociology at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of two previous books, including Checkerboard Square (Westview, 1993), winner of the 1993 C. Wright Mills Award.

Descriere

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. It reviews the Republican strategy on sin developed in the 1960s and 1970s.

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