David Wagner

The New Temperance

The American Obsession With Sin and Vice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780813325699
• ISBN-10: 0813325692
• Artikelnr.: 22260791

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

The New Temperance
Déjà Vu All Over Again
Temperance and the Social Construction of Risk
"The Slippery Slope," or Scaring Them Straight
Getting "Lean and Mean's": The Middle
Class Return to Respectability
Manufacturing Consensus: The Politics of Puritanism
From Loyalty Oaths to Urine Tests