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" The unacceptable "
edited by John Potts and John Scannell.
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BL
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739591
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b559521
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edited by John Potts and John Scannell.
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The unacceptable\ edited by John Potts and John Scannell.
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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(ix, 234 pages)
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1137014571
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: 1349436852
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: 9781137014573
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: 9781349436859
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Introduction: What is the Unacceptable? / J. Potts & J. Scannell --;PART I. THE SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE. Power and the Unacceptable / M. Dean --;'Schooling Scandals!': Exploring the Necessity of Cultural Disgust / C. Haywood --;Presumed Innocent: Picturing Childhood / C. Lumby --;The Sombrero Comes Out of the Closet: Gay Marriage in Mexico City and a Nation's Struggle for Identity / S. Ballina --;The Drug Cultures in France and the Netherlands (1960s-1980s): Banning or Regulating the 'Unacceptable' / A. Marchant --;'When the Smoke Clears': Confronting Smoking Policy / J. Scannell --;PART II. REPRESENTING THE UNACCEPTABLE. The Monstrous-Familial: Representations of the Unacceptable Family / J. Potts --;Unacceptability and Prosaic Life in Breaking Bad / E. Logan --;Sade's Constrained Libertinage: The Problem of Disgust / N. Stekelenburg --;Censorship in Performance in America: Freedom of Expression Has Limitations / T.R. Wilson --;Why Saying 'No' to Life is Unacceptable / C. Colebrook --;Index.
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Confronting the issue of the unacceptable as a social category, this collection of international essays provides distinctive perspectives on the theme of what is deemed socially acceptable. The book reveals the ways category of the unacceptable reflects sexual, racial and political fault-lines of a society.
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Social acceptance.
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Social interaction.
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Social policy.
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HM1111.E358 2013
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John Potts
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John Scannell
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