The Moral Panics of Sexuality

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.

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction; Breanne Fahs, Mary L. Dudy and Sarah Stage PART I: FEMALE DESIRE 1. Do I Have Something in my Teeth? Vagina Dentata and its Manifestations Within Popular Culture; Michelle Ashley Gohr 2. Vampires, Border Crossing, and Panic in Sheridan Le Fanu's 'Carmilla'; Ellen Stockstill PART II: CREATING NORMS 3. Bodies That Are Always Out of Line: A Closer Look at 'Age Appropriate Sexuality'; Sara I. McClelland and L. E. Hunter 4. Raising Bloody Hell: Inciting Menstrual Panics Through Campus and Community Activism; Breanne Fahs 5. Scary Sex: The Moral Discourse of Glee; Sarah Flett Prior PART III: COLONIAL EROTICS 6. Eating it Out: Human Consumption and Sexual Deviance in Nineteenth Century Travel Writing; Ayaan Agane 7. Cyber Pinkwashing: Gay Rights Under Occupation; Rachael Byrne PART IV: TACTICAL PANICS 8. What 'Good' Girls Do: Katharine Bement Davis and the Moral Panic of the first U. S. Sexual Survey; Sarah Stage 9. Gay Republican in the American Culture War: Wisconsin Congressman Steve Gunderson, 1989-1996; Jordan O'Connell PART V: CRITICAL PANICS 10. Time to Panic! Disability Justice, Sex Surrogacy, and Sexual Freedom; Brooke Willock 11. No to the Flow: Rejecting Feminine Norms and the Reproductive Imperative Through Hormonal Menstrual Suppression; Bianca Jarvis 12. Cumming to Terms: Bareback Pornography, Homonormativity, and Queer Survival in the Time of HIV/AIDS; Michael McNamara Afterword: Insisting on 'both/and': Artifacts of Excavating the Moral Panics of Sexuality; Deborah Tolman Endnotes Index