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The decency wars : the campaign to cleanse American culture / Frederick S. Lane.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lane, Frederick S., 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deviant behavior.
- United States--Social policy.
- United States.
- Social policy.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--1989-.
- Conservatism--United States.
- Conservatism.
- United States--Moral conditions.
- Moral conditions.
- Culture conflict--United States.
- Culture conflict.
- Social values--United States.
- Social values.
- Social control--United States.
- Social control.
- Sexual ethics--United States.
- Sexual ethics.
- Deviant behavior--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 367 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2006.
- Summary:
- Lane examines America's changing attitudes toward the politics of decency and spells out strategies for combating the rising influence of the puritanical Religious Right.
- Contents:
- A Few Words on Terminology 13
- Prologue: Slaves to the Rhythm: The NFL, CBS, and MTV Reap as They Sow 17
- Chapter 1 A Nip in the Air: The Chilling Effects of the 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show 31
- Chapter 2 From Henry VIII to the FCC: Tracing the Origins of American Efforts to Legislate Decency 53
- Chapter 3 Religious Boycotts and Corporate Self-Censorship: Private Efforts to Cleanse American Culture 75
- Chapter 4 "A Soldier in God's Army": Anita Bryant, Jerry Falwell, and the Rise of Evangelical Politics 97
- Chapter 5 Losing the Decency Wars, One Living Room at a Time: A Decade of Deregulation, Cable, Phones, and Computers 119
- Chapter 6 The Post-Reagan Hangover: A Four-Year Rearguard Action against Cultural Indecency 145
- Chapter 7 The Oral Majority: On Talk Radio, the Issue of Decency Gets Personal 169
- Chapter 8 Now Is the Year of Our Dissed Content: Why the FCC Reenlisted in the War on Indecency 193
- Chapter 9 Ask Not for Whom the Wedding Bells Toll: A Love That Now Dares Speak Its Name 219
- Chapter 10 At Play in the Laboratories of the Lord: Sacrificing Scientific Truth on the Altar of Ideology 243
- Conclusion: A Thousand Points of Enlightenment: Strategies to Restore the True Meaning of Decency in American Society 269.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-336) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1591024277
- OCLC:
- 67727714
- Publisher Number:
- 9781591024279
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