Dagmar Herzog is Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of two pioneering books, Intimacy and Exclusion and Sex after Fascism, as well as numerous scholarly articles on the history of human sexuality.
David Brock, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Blinded by the
Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative"
"It's wishful thinking to imagine that the Religious Right is in
retreat on all fronts in America and Dagmar Herzog fearlessly
reveals how at the nexus of sex and politics, evangelical
conservatives still control the agenda. How did this happen and why
are progressive leaders silent on sex in America? With eye-popping
research and reporting, Dagmar Herzog offers answers and, more
important, issues a transformative challenge to all Americans. "Sex
in Crisis" is a remarkable, necessary book."
John Gagnon, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, The
State University at Stony Brook, coauthor of "Sexual Conduct" and
"The Social Organization of Sexuality"
"The religious right has repackaged its anti-sex messages in a
secular wrapping to suit the changing cultural and social world
over the last decades, but inside the box is the same old message,
sexual abstinence and sexual ignorance for all, except in marriage.
What is new is that if the sex you are having is not heterosexual,
marital and serving God's purposes it is the source of mental and
physical illness in addition to being sinful. Dagmar Herzog has
carefully documented the ways in which the religious right has
through distortion and falsehood taken over the language of sexual
health and played upon the sexual fears of the American public and
its politicians to invalidate all other forms of sexuality. This is
an important book about the way in which the sexual conversation in
the United States has been shanghaied to advance the religious and
secular agendas of the far right."
Nancy F. Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and
Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the
History of Women in America at Harvard University
"To appreciate the heady brew of contradictions bubbling in the
evangelical right's secular campaign about sex -- including its
successful use of therapeutic language, double messages on chastity
and salvation, and pro-sex view of marriage -- Herzog's sharp-eyed
critical study, packed with jaw-dropping evidence, is a must
read."
Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of "Election," "Little Children,"
and "The Abstinence Teacher"
""Sex in Crisis" is a brilliant analysis of the ways in which our
bedrooms have been invaded by the anxiety-mongers of Big Pharma and
the moralists of the Christian Right. Dagmar Herzog's account of
America's New Sexual Revolution is crisply written, often
disturbing, and utterly persuasive."
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