{"product_id":"sex-panic-rhetorics-queer-interventions-hardback-9780817320560","title":"Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions (Hardback) 9780817320560","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIan Barnard (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817320560\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 April 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 16 x 2.7 cm, 0.495 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSex Panic Rhetorics\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative and engaging read, making an original and significant contribution to the fields of rhetorical studies, feminist theory, and queer studies.\" - Jeffrey A. Bennett, author of \u003ci\u003eBanning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eSex Panic Rhetorics\u003c\/i\u003e is timely, well-conceived and orchestrated, providing fresh perspective on the 'stubbornness of old anti-queer mindsets and practices' manifest in the rhetorics of sex panics and their enabling (neo-) liberal discourses and ideologies, and 'excavation of queerphobia' at the heart of them.\" - Charles E. Morris III, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eQED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAnalyzes the rhetoric of contemporary sex panics to expose how homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia define public, political, and scholarly preoccupations with sexuality and gender.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eSex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions\u003c\/i\u003e, Ian Barnard makes the counter-intuitive argument that contemporary 'sex panics' are undergirded by queerphobia, even when the panics in question don't appear to have much to do with queerness. Barnard presents six case studies that treat a wide range of sex panic rhetorics around child molesters, sex trafficking, transgenderism, incest, queer kids, and pedagogy to demonstrate this argument. By using examples from academic scholarship, political discourse, and popular culture, including the Kevin Spacey scandal and the award-winning film \u003ci\u003eMoonlight\u003c\/i\u003e, Barnard shows how homophobia and transphobia continue to pervade contemporary Western culture.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Barnard is concerned not so much with looking at the overt homophobia and transphobia that are the more obvious objects of antihomophobic and antitransphobic critique. The author's focus, rather, is on excavating the significant traces of these panics in a neoliberal culture that has supposedly demonstrated its civility by its embrace of diversity, renunciation of its homophobic past, and attentiveness to the transgender revolution that has swept popular, media, and political culture in the United States and elsewhere. During a time of increasing conservative backlashes against advancing LGBTQ rights and human rights discourses in general, this book shows why it is important to attend to the liberal covers for sex panics that are not too far removed from their rhetorically conservative cousins.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Introduction (Arriving at the Here and Now)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Child Molester Panics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Sex-Trafficking Panics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Transgender Panics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Incest Panics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Queer Kids\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Pedagogy Panics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Conclusion (Toward a Queer Goodbye)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReferences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570146504984,"sku":"9780817320560","price":34.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sex-panic-rhetorics-queer-interventions-hardback-9780817320560","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}