Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Moral Panics, Sexual Rights, and Cultural Anger Gilbert Herdt 2. The Religious Right and the Reshaping of Sexuality: Reproductive Rights and Sexuality Education During the Bush Years Diane DiMauro & Carole Joffe 3. Black Sexuality, Indigenous Moral Panics, and Respectability: From Bill Cosby to the Down Low Cathy J. Cohen 4. The "Gay Plague" Revisited: AIDS and its Enduring Moral Panic Gary W. Dowsett 5. Gay Marriage: The Panic and the Right Gilbert Herdt 6. Postcolonial Amnesia: Sexual Moral Panics, Memory and Imperial Power Saskia Eleonora Wieringa 7. Transient Feelings: Sex Panics and the Politics of Emotions Janice M. Irvine Contributors Index

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Focuses on case studies ranging from sex education to AIDS to race to illustrate how sexuality is at the heart of many political controversies

About the Author

Gilbert Herdt is Professor and Founder of the Department of Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University and author of Guardians of the Flutes, Third Sex, Third Gender, and Secrecy and Cultural Reality.

Reviews

"The authors provide thorough accounts of contemporary social and sexual issues that dominate social consciousness. Media and politics...a modern synopsis of how sex and sexuality continue to be embedded in political, educational and social debates...This work is a useful addition for academics concerned with understanding the politics embedded in sexual and reproductive rights in America." Lindsay Sprague from Queen's University Belfast writing for Social Anthropology