Author: Brian WrightPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
In the Name of Decent Citizens
Author: Brian WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Citizens for Decency
Author: Louis A. Zurcher, Jr.Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292710348
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Throughout the United States, groups of individuals have been confronting the issues surrounding sexually explicit materials. Many have concurred in their perceptions of what is pornographic, have assessed pornography to be a problem our society must deal with, and have made organized efforts within their communities to stop or restrict the commercial availability of such materials. Citizens for Decency is an examination of two antipornography crusades, one in the Midwest and the other in the Southwest. It examines the evolution and impact of such crusades, the satisfaction derived from participating, and the relevant characteristics of the participants and their opponents. It is the first systematic, comprehensive, and theory-oriented study of antipornography crusades and one of the few studies that analyze movements to resist change. The book begins with the assumption that the term pornography is a value judgment and that the labeling of sexually explicit materials as “pornographic” can be adequately understood only in the wider context of sociological and psychological structures and processes. In approaching the antipornography crusades, Louis A. Zurcher and R. George Kirkpatrick gathered data by observation and document search and by interviews with persons well informed about and central to the crusades. Their examination of the organizations that directed the two movements is particularly extensive, and their comparative analysis of the two organizations allows them to determine which features are the most important, how these characteristics interact, and what their relationship is to the symbolic crusade. Among their important findings, the authors show that antipornography crusaders are people discontent with their status who have mobilized to protect the dominance and prestige of their traditional life styles. The participants in the crusades are shown to differ from their opponents in a number of significant ways. In the final chapters, the authors analyze their findings with reference to social movement theory and offer predictions concerning future symbolic crusades.
The American Issue
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Category : Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
California Medical Journal
Author: They Called Him Wild Bill
Author: Joseph G. RosaPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806179546
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
His contemporaries called him Wild Bill, and newspapermen and others made him a legend in his own time. Among western characters only General George Armstrong Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody are as readily recognized by the general public. In writing this biography, Joseph G. Rosa has expressed the hope that "Hickok emerges as a man and not a legend." For this comprehensive revision of his earlier biography of Wild Bill the author was allowed to work from newly available materials in the possession of the Hickok family. He also discovered new material pertaining to Wild Bill’s Civil War exploits and his service as a marshal and found the pardon file of his murderer, John McCall. Additional, rare photographs of Wild Bill are published here for the first time. The results of Rosa’s additional research make this second edition the best biography of Wild Bill likely to be written for years to come.
Extention of Rent Control, 1949
Author: United States Congress. House. Banking and Currency CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine ...
Author: The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Author: Josiah Gilbert HollandPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 974
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