Analyzes the rhetoric of contemporary sex panics to expose how
homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia define public, political,
and scholarly preoccupations with sexuality and gender. In Sex
Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions, 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
Moonlight, Barnard shows how homophobia and transphobia continue to
pervade contemporary Western culture. 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.
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