Moral Panics, Sex Panics

Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights

Bibliographic Data

ID3862608
AuthorsD Waskul (0000-0002-5231-1666, Minnesota State University, Mankato, corresponding author), Dennis D Waskul (Minnesota State University, Mankato)
Year2010
Volume39
Issue5
Pages576-578
Publication date2010-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeREVIEW
Review ofMoral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights, Gilbert H Herdt, 2009
VenueContemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094306110380384t
OpenAlexW2319567206
LanguageEN

I began reading Moral Panics, Sex Panics just as the media had apparently exhausted Tiger Woods’ numerous infidelities, as salacious images of Rielle Hunter (mistress of former U.S. Senator John Edwards) saturated the mediascape, and Jessie James (then-husband of Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock) publically admitted to an affair with a tattooed exotic dancer. While none of these, “monogamy challenged” celebrities, nor the media frenzy surrounding them, represent moral or sex panic (in themselves, at least for now), the steady stream of sex scandal in contemporary media culture is an ever-present context for both thinking about the contents of Moral Panics, Sex Panics as well as the seemingly constant lascivious barrage of “sexual indignities” that saturate the media—a clear advantage to Gilbert Herdt’s edited collection, and one that I suspect will appeal to an even broader range of readers than perhaps intended

Anxiety · Criminology · Moral panic · Panic · Political science · Psychiatry · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Psychology · Social Psychology

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