Panics

Author : Barbara Molinard
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558612963
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Panics written by Barbara Molinard and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradictions of the twentieth-century female experience. A close friend and protégé of Marguerite Duras, Barbara Molinard (1921–1986) wrote and wrote feverishly, but only managed to publish one book in her lifetime: the surreal, nightmarish collection Panics. These thirteen stories beat with a frantic, off-kilter rhythm as Molinard obsesses over sickness, death, and control. A woman becomes transfixed by a boa constrictor at her local zoo, mysterious surgeons dismember their patient, and the author narrates to Duras how she was stopped from sleeping in a cemetery vault, only to be haunted by the pain of sleeping on its stone floor. In the unsettling tradition of Franz Kafka, Djuna Barnes, Leonara Carrington, and more, Panics recovers the work of a tormented writer who often destroyed her writing as soon as she produced it, and whose insights into violence, mental illness, and bodily autonomy are simultaneously absurdist and razor-sharp.

Author : Jack Z. Bratich
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791473344
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conspiracy Panics written by Jack Z. Bratich and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2008-02-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines contemporary anxiety over the phenomenon of conspiracy theories.

Author : Karen Sternheimer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317751337
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pop Culture Panics written by Karen Sternheimer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral panics reveal much about a society’s social structure and the sociology embedded in everyday life. This short text examines extreme reactions to American popular culture over the past century, including crusades against comic books, music, and pinball machines, to help convey the "sociological imagination" to undergraduates. Sternheimer creates a critical lens through which to view current and future attempts of modern-day moral crusaders, who try to convince us that simple solutions—like regulating popular culture—are the answer to complex social problems. Pop Culture Panics is ideal for use in undergraduate social problems, social deviance, and popular culture courses.

Author : Quillette Magazine
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1839782145
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Panics and Persecutions written by Quillette Magazine and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age when telling the wrong joke or using the wrong pronoun can cost you your career, Quillette magazine - founded in 2015 by Australian-based journalist Claire Lehmann - has provided a forum for thinkers of all political stripes to push back against the forces of intellectual conformity. Panics and Persecutions brings together a collection of especially compelling Quillette narratives, spanning subcultures from computer science to romance literature. These stories lay bare the human toll of modern ideological inquisitions, often in deeply personal terms-and demonstrate the urgency of Quillette's editorial mission to create a space where free thought lives. Edited by Claire Lehmann, Colin Wright, Jamie Palmer, Jonathan Kay and Toby Young.

Author : William Patry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195385640
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars written by William Patry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars, William Patry offers a lively, unflinching examination of the pitched battles over new technology, business models, and most of all, consumers. He lays bare how we got to where we are: a bloated, punitive legal regime that has strayed far from its modest, but important roots. A centrist and believer in appropriately balanced copyright laws, Patry concludes that the only laws we need are effective laws, laws that further the purpose of encouraging the creation of new works and learning.

Author : Stanley Cohen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780415610162
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk Devils and Moral Panics written by Stanley Cohen and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2011 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New Society Mods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was Stanley Cohen's classic account, first published in the early 1970s and regularly revised, that brought the term 'moral panic' into widespread discussion. It is an outstanding investigation of the way in which the media and often those in a position of political power define a condition, or group, as a threat to societal values and interests. Fanned by screaming media headlines, Cohen brilliantly demonstrates how this leads to such groups being marginalised and vilified in the popular imagination, inhibiting rational debate about solutions to the social problems such groups represent. Furthermore, he argues that moral panics go even further by identifying the very fault lines of power in society. Full of sharp insight and analysis, Folk Devils and Moral Panics is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand this powerful and enduring phenomenon. Professor Stanley Cohen is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. He received the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology (1985) and is on the Board of the International Council on Human Rights. He is a member of the British Academy.

Author : Kenneth Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134811616
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Panics written by Kenneth Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely acknowledged that this is the age of moral panics. From the Bulger case to mad cow disease, newspaper headlines continually warn of some new danger and television programmes echo the theme with sensational docmenturies. This concise survey will help student trace the development of ideas of moral panic and to analyse how changing public perceptions are shaped and reflected through the media over time. Using examples drawn from: * club culture and raves * mugging * sex and AIDS * children, violence and the family.

Author : Gilbert Herdt
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814737323
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Panics, Sex Panics written by Gilbert Herdt and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for 2010 LGBT Anthology Award from the Lambda Literary Awards Unwed teen mothers, abortion, masturbation, pornography, gay marriage, sex trafficking, homosexuality, and HIV are just a few in a long line of issues that have erupted into panics. These sexual panics spark moral crusades and campaigns, defining and shaping how we think about sexual and reproductive rights. The essays in Moral Panics, Sex Panics focus on case studies ranging from sex education to AIDS to race and the "down low," to illustrate how sexuality is at the heart of many political controversies. The contributors also reveal how moral and sexual panics have become a mainstay of certain kinds of conservative efforts to win elections and gain power in moral, social, and political arenas. Moral Panics, Sex Panics provides new and important insights into the role that key moral panics have played in social processes, arguing forcefully against the political abuse of sex panics and for the need to defend full sexual and reproductive rights. Contributors: Cathy J. Cohen, Diane DiMauro, Gary W. Dowsett, Janice M. Irvine, Carole Joffe, and Saskia Eleonora Wieringa.

Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814742440
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Synthetic Panics written by Philip Jenkins and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America has a long history of drug panics in which countless social problems have been blamed on the devastating effects of some harmful substance. In the last forty years, such panics have often focused on synthetic or designer drugs, like methamphetamine, PCP, Ecstasy, methcathinone, and rave drugs like ketamine, and GHB. Fear of these substances has provided critical justification for the continuing "war on drugs." Synthetic Panics traces the history of these anti-drug movements, demonstrating that designer chemicals inspire so much fear not because they are uniquely dangerous, but because they bring into focus deeply rooted public concerns about social and cultural upheaval. Jenkins highlights the role of the mass media in spreading anti-drug hysteria and shows how proponents of the war on drugs use synthetic panics to scapegoat society's "others" and exacerbate racial, class, and intergenerational conflict.

Author : B. Fahs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137353171
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Panics of Sexuality written by B. Fahs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative feminist analysis of the moral panics of sexuality, this interdisciplinary edited collection showcases the range of historical and contemporary crises we too often suppress, including vagina dentata, vampires, cannibalism, age appropriateness, breast cancer, menstrual panics, and sex education.