ISBN:
9780429975776
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (223 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Wagner, David The New Temperance : The American Obsession With Sin And Vice
DDC:
306/.0973
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The New Temperance -- The Coercive Consensus -- Defining the âNew Temperanceâ -- Questioning the Behavior Wars -- Organization of the Book -- 2 Déjà Vu All Over Again -- Remembering When -- Declaring Temperance Dead -- Back to the Past: The Old Temperance Movements -- The Old Substance Wars -- The Old Sex, Censorship, and Health Wars -- Censorship Wars: The Vice Societies -- Sex Wars: The Social Purity Movement -- Sex and Health Wars: The Social Hygiene Movement -- Themes: Hyperbole, Social Control, Class, and Political Power -- 3 Temperance and the Social Construction of Risk -- Constructing Social Problems -- Limitations of Social Constructionism -- Medicalization and Moral Panics -- Toward a Theory of Temperance -- The Tendency for Political and Social Elites to Support Temperance -- The Tendency Toward a Populist Temperance -- Historical Change -- 4 âThe Slippery Slope,â or Scaring Them Straight -- âDry Logicâ -- Blurring Boundaries: Drugs, Fear, and Trembling -- False Concreteness: The âSmoking Deathâ -- Reversing Cause and Effect? The Teen Pregnancy âProblemâ -- Science as Morality: The âMultiple-Partnerâ Risk -- The Judgmental Dupe: âFor They Know Not What They Doâ -- 5 Getting âLean and Meanâ: The Middle-Class Return to Respectability -- The Dilemmas of Being Middle Class -- The Achievement of Respectability in America: 1830-1920 -- The Partial Democratization of âDevianceâ: 1920s-1960s -- The Radical Attack on Respectability: 1960s-1970s -- The New Temperance and Economic Decline: 1970s-1990s -- The New Middle-Class Imperatives -- Social Class, Behavioral Norms, and Temperance -- 6 Manufacturing Consensus: The Politics of Puritanism -- American Electoral Conservatism and the Politics of Puritanism
Abstract:
The âPersonal Is Politicalâ -- Sin and the Republican Strategy -- The Left and Puritanism -- The Construction of Anti-Corporate Healthism -- Sex, Violence, and Feminism -- De-Sexualizing the Gay Movement -- Convergence in the Politics of Danger -- 7 From Loyalty Oaths to Urine Tests -- Demonizing the 1960s -- The Limits of the Totally Administered Society -- Notes -- About the Book and Author -- Index
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