Everyone is NOT doing it : abstinence and personal identity /
Mullaney, Jamie L.
Everyone is NOT doing it : abstinence and personal identity / Jamie L. Mullaney. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006. - xi, 223 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-215) and index.
Introduction -- Seeing not-doing : time, place, and language -- Historical frames of abstinence -- Contemporary abstainers -- "You gotta run the whole tape" : pathways to abstinence -- Determining what counts : abstinence thresholds -- Fire walking -- Fence building -- Negotiating abstinence strategies -- Verbal performances of abstinence -- Conclusion.
0226547566 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226547574 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2005016384
Identity (Psychology)--Social aspects.
Self-denial--Social aspects.
Taboo.
Temptation.
Temperance.
Sexual abstinence.
Vegetarianism.
HM1051 / .M85 2006
155.2/5
Everyone is NOT doing it : abstinence and personal identity / Jamie L. Mullaney. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006. - xi, 223 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-215) and index.
Introduction -- Seeing not-doing : time, place, and language -- Historical frames of abstinence -- Contemporary abstainers -- "You gotta run the whole tape" : pathways to abstinence -- Determining what counts : abstinence thresholds -- Fire walking -- Fence building -- Negotiating abstinence strategies -- Verbal performances of abstinence -- Conclusion.
0226547566 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226547574 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2005016384
Identity (Psychology)--Social aspects.
Self-denial--Social aspects.
Taboo.
Temptation.
Temperance.
Sexual abstinence.
Vegetarianism.
HM1051 / .M85 2006
155.2/5