David Wagner

THE NEW TEMPERANCE (eBook, ePUB)

THE AMERICAN OBSESSION WITH SIN AND VICE

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The author compares the current "temperance "movements (against drugs, smoking, alcohol, teen pregnancy, pornography, fatty foods, and even politically incorrect language) with similar movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The book addresses why the new campaigns emerged after the supposed freer days of the 1960s, and why these issues are popular in America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gotham Books
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781956349030
• Artikelnr.: 62546478

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
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.