Mullaney, Jamie L. <br/><br/>
Everyone is NOT doing it :  abstinence and personal identity / 
Jamie L. Mullaney. 
 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  2006. 
 - xi, 223 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-215) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0226547566 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226547574 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005016384 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Identity (Psychology)--Social aspects.<br/>Self-denial--Social aspects.<br/>Taboo.<br/>Temptation.<br/>Temperance.<br/>Sexual abstinence.<br/>Vegetarianism.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM1051  / .M85 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>155.2/5