The Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic
 Outstanding Analysis: This is an outstanding book on a horrible decade in American and Western European culture. DeYoung's sociological analysis of the American day care cases uses moral panic theory as its framework; in analysing the cases, she also [... more]
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Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in ...
The best of it's kind!: Philip Jenkins did it again. His previous book, 'Intimate Enemies: Moral Panics in Contemporary Great Britain' talked about child-abuse hysteria that swept Britain some time ago. This new book is actually a history of the concept [... more]
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Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance
Did Nancy Reagan cause a moral panic?: "Moral panics" as a defined concept has been around since 1972 when the British sociologist Steven Cohen was attempting to explain the peculiar hysteria surrounding a small, but violent incident between [... more]
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The new anti-liberals
The new anti-liberals: Sad to say, but it looks like the war against political correctness has been won. I use the word sad not because I am a defender of PC dogma but because, like many journalists, I have always been able to rely on PC-bashing to [... more]
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The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and ...
Marvelous: Rarely does a work of history both capture a particular moment in time and resonate so deeply with issues alive in contemporary public culture. As the country debates the possibility of gay marriage and the possible meanings of these unions, [... more]
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Friends of the Family: The English Home and Its ...
From Amazon.com: An Englishman's home may well be his castle, but even before the development of the modern welfare state, plenty of outsiders held the castle keys. Victorian reformers poked their way into the homes of the poor--and, later, the middle [... more]
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Big Sister: How Extreme Feminism Has Betrayed the Fight ...
The fruits of radical feminism: Two generations of "gender politics" have finally provoked some response - although it's been halting and somewhat erratic. The early efforts were in academia: Gross and Leavitt's "Higher Superstition" [... more]
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Much-Lamented Death of Madam Geneva
From Amazon.co.uk: In the England of Sir Robert Walpole, addiction to gin (particularly by women) caused as much concern in the national psyche as crack cocaine does today. Patrick Dillon's The Much-Lamented Death of Madam Geneva is not the first account [... more]
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The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and ...
Marvelous: Rarely does a work of history both capture a particular moment in time and resonate so deeply with issues alive in contemporary public culture. As the country debates the possibility of gay marriage and the possible meanings of these unions, [... more]
CDN$20.84
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