Proliferating Panic
Regulating Representations of Sex and Gender during the Culture Wars
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2964683 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cristyn Davies (0000-0003-1506-3285, Western Sydney University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 1970-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1446-8123 • E-ISSN: 1837-8692 |
| Publisher | University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5130/csr.v14i2.2073 |
| OpenAlex | W2045930903 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 9 |
During the culture wars in the United States surveillance of representations of the American citizen reached a particular frenzy. This article explores the moral panic that has accompanied attempts by the New Right to shape and define the American citizen as heterosexual, monogamous, white, and a believer in middle-class family values. Davies focuses on the work of performance artists Karen Finley and Holly Hughes whose work challenges hegemonic discourses of gender and sexuality. They were two of those artists branded by the media as the 'NEA Four', practitioners whose work was considered indecent and consequently de-funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. The article imagines performance art as a queer time and space; that is, not only does performance art contest normative structures of traditional theatrical performance, so too does it challenge understandings of normative subjects, and the relation of the arts to structures of power
Aesthetics · Art · Autonomy · CONTEST · Criminology · Hegemony · Human sexuality · Media studies · Moral panic · Normative · Political science · Politics · Popular culture · Power (physics · Queer · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Public Spaces through Art
Responsibilities, tensions and ways forward
Constructing ‘Decency’
‘It’s not at all chic to be denied your civil rights’
‘Difficult citizenship’
Doing Sexuality Research with Children
Docile Bodies and Heteronormative Moral Subjects
Producing Cosmopolitan Sexual Citizens on The L Word
Moral Panic and Social Justice
Sustaining a Feminist Periodical
She's Kickin' Ass, That's What She's Doing
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2021 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |