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The Moral Panics of Sexuality

The Moral Panics of Sexuality

The Moral Panics of Sexuality
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The Moral Panics of Sexuality

The Moral Panics of Sexuality

Overview

A provocative feminist analysis of the moral panics of sexuality, this interdisciplinary edited collection showcases the range of historical and contemporary crises we too often suppress, including vagina dentata, vampires, cannibalism, age appropriateness, breast cancer, menstrual panics, and sex education.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137353177
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 09/12/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 259
File size: 806 KB

About the Author

Ayanne Agane, Strategic Book Group, USA Rachael Byrne, San Francisco State University, USA Mary L. Dudy, Arizona State University, USA Breanne Fahs, Arizona State University, USA Michelle A.Gohr, University of Arizona, USA L. E. Hunter, University of Michigan, USA Bianca Jarvis, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Sara McClelland, University of Michigan, USA Michael McNamara, San Francisco State University, USA Jordan O'Connell, Odessa College, USA Sarah Flett Prior, Arizona State University, USA Sarah Stage, Arizona State University, USA Ellen Stockstill, Georgia State University, USA Deborah Tolman, The City University of New York, USA Brooke Willock, freelance writer, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction; Breanne Fahs, Mary L. Dudy and Sarah Stage PART I: FEMALE DESIRE 1. Do I Have Something in my Teeth? Vagina Dentata and its Manifestations Within Popular Culture; Michelle Ashley Gohr 2. Vampires, Border Crossing, and Panic in Sheridan Le Fanu's 'Carmilla'; Ellen Stockstill PART II: CREATING NORMS 3. Bodies That Are Always Out of Line: A Closer Look at 'Age Appropriate Sexuality'; Sara I. McClelland and L. E. Hunter 4. Raising Bloody Hell: Inciting Menstrual Panics Through Campus and Community Activism; Breanne Fahs 5. Scary Sex: The Moral Discourse of Glee; Sarah Flett Prior PART III: COLONIAL EROTICS 6. Eating it Out: Human Consumption and Sexual Deviance in Nineteenth Century Travel Writing; Ayaan Agane 7. Cyber Pinkwashing: Gay Rights Under Occupation; Rachael Byrne PART IV: TACTICAL PANICS 8. What 'Good' Girls Do: Katharine Bement Davis and the Moral Panic of the first U.S. Sexual Survey; Sarah Stage 9. Gay Republican in the American Culture War: Wisconsin Congressman Steve Gunderson, 1989-1996; Jordan O'Connell PART V: CRITICAL PANICS 10. Time to Panic! Disability Justice, Sex Surrogacy, and Sexual Freedom; Brooke Willock 11. No to the Flow: Rejecting Feminine Norms and the Reproductive Imperative Through Hormonal Menstrual Suppression; Bianca Jarvis 12. Cumming to Terms: Bareback Pornography, Homonormativity, and Queer Survival in the Time of HIV/AIDS; Michael McNamara Afterword: Insisting on 'both/and': Artifacts of Excavating the Moral Panics of Sexuality; Deborah Tolman Endnotes Index
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