The New Temperance: The American Obsession With Sin And Vice

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

• | Author: David Wagner
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Sep 13, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 236 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0367318792
• | ISBN-13: 9780367318796