Millennial Seduction: A Skeptic Confronts Apocalyptic Culture

By Lee Quinby

Book Overview

Millennial rhetoric is both pervasive and persuasive, Quinby argues, because it operates with mutually reinforcing doses of fear and hope. Religious and secular anxiety erupts over charged issues such as sex education, the regulation of cyberspace, and the masculinity of the Promise Keepers. Quinby exposes the dangers of millennialist solutions, which link misogyny, homophobia, and racism with absolutist claims about truth, morality, sexuality, and technology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801486017
• ISBN13: 9780801486012
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher