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Millennial seduction : a skeptic confronts apocalyptic culture
- Author
- Quinby, Lee, 1946-
- Title
- Millennial seduction : a skeptic confronts apocalyptic culture / Lee Quinby.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1999.
- Description
- ix, 182 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-178) and index.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Subject headings
- Skepticism Millennium (Eschatology) End of the world.
- ISBN
- 0801435927 (cloth : acid-free paper) 0801486017 (paperback)