The new temperance : the American obsession with sin and vice

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Label

The new temperance : the American obsession with sin and vice

Title remainder

the American obsession with sin and vice

Statement of responsibility

David Wagner

Creator

• Wagner, David

Subject

• Moraal
• Sociale controle
• Political correctness
• Kultur
• Moral conditions
• Conservatisme
• Conservatism -- United States
• Estados Unidos -- Condiciones morales
• Abstinenz
• Modificación de la conducta -- Estados Unidos
• Temperance
• Behavior modification -- United States
• Temperance -- United States
• Sobriedad -- Estados Unidos
• USA
• United States
• Political correctness -- United States
• Conservadurismo -- Estados Unidos
• Conservatism
• United States -- Moral conditions
• USA
• Behavior modification

Language

eng

Summary

The New Temperance contrasts the new obsession with personal behavior in America during the last two decades with the brief period of relative freedom in the 1960s and early 1970s and suggests strong consistencies with our past. In particular, the late twentieth century appears to have re-created the mood of the Victorian and Progressive Periods, when social movements such as the Temperance, Social Purity, and Vice and Vigilance movements held sway. The New Temperance questions the constant mantra in the media and in political debates about the dangers of personal behavior and challenges America's love affair with repression

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

306/.0973

Index

index present

LC call number

HN90.M6

LC item number

W34 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography