The New Temperance : The American Obsession With Sin and Vice
by
David Wagner
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0367318792
ISBN-13
9780367318796
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 13th, 2019
Print length
236 Pages
Weight
1,000 grams
Product Classification:
Sociology
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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.
The war on drugs ? the campaigns against smoking cigarettes ? v-chips to control what children watch on TV ? censoring the Internet and Calvin Klein jeans ads?bipartisan lectures about the dangers of teen sex ? constant warnings about food and fat ? all are examples of what David Wagner terms the ?New Temperance.?The New Temperance contrasts the ne
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