| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: What is the Unacceptable? / J. Potts & J. Scannell -- PART I. THE SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE. Power and the Unacceptable / M. Dean -- 'Schooling Scandals!': Exploring the Necessity of Cultural Disgust / C. Haywood -- Presumed Innocent: Picturing Childhood / C. Lumby -- The Sombrero Comes Out of the Closet: Gay Marriage in Mexico City and a Nation's Struggle for Identity / S. Ballina -- The Drug Cultures in France and the Netherlands (1960s-1980s): Banning or Regulating the 'Unacceptable' / A. Marchant -- 'When the Smoke Clears': Confronting Smoking Policy / J. Scannell -- PART II. REPRESENTING THE UNACCEPTABLE. The Monstrous-Familial: Representations of the Unacceptable Family / J. Potts -- Unacceptability and Prosaic Life in Breaking Bad / E. Logan -- Sade's Constrained Libertinage: The Problem of Disgust / N. Stekelenburg -- Censorship in Performance in America: Freedom of Expression Has Limitations / T.R. Wilson -- Why Saying 'No' to Life is Unacceptable / C. Colebrook -- Index |
| Summary |
"Confronting the issue of the unacceptable as a social category, this international collection of essays provides distinctive perspectives on the theme of what is deemed socially acceptable. The unacceptable is explored in relation to censorship, pornography, free speech and hate speech, moral panics, drug culture, social policy and power, fears surrounding paedophilia and the family, gay marriage, childhood sexuality, smoking, and the representation of criminal or transgressive behaviour. The volume reveals the ways in which the category of the unacceptable reflects sexual, racial and political fault-lines of a society"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Social acceptance.
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Social policy.
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Social interaction.
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public policy.
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History of ideas.
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Social interaction.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Pornography.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Society.
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Social acceptance
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Social interaction
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Social policy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Potts, John, 1959-
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Scannell, John
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| LC no. |
2012034950 |
| ISBN |
9781137014573 |
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1137014571 |
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9781349436859 |
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1349436852 |
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