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Millennial seduction : a skeptic confronts apocalyptic culture /
Who among us still thinks the year 2000 is just an arbitrary turn of a calendar page? Why does its approach bring both fear of apocalyptic destruction and the promise of millennial salvation? Lee Quinby investigates how anxiety about the arrival of the new century casts everything from El Niño to s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: threshold of revelation
- Skeptical revelations of an American feminist on Patmos
- Teaching on the threshold: angels and skeptics
- Genealogical skepticism: how theory confronts millennialism
- Millennialist morality and the problem of chastity
- Coercive purity: the dangerous promise of apocalyptic masculinity
- Feeling Jezebel: exposing apocalyptic gender panic and other con games; Addendum: circuits of revelation
- Programmed perfection, technoppression, and cyborg flesh
- Epilogue: skepticism as a way of life.