Philip Jenkins is Professor of History and Religious Studies, Pennsylvania State University. His publications include books as well as numerous articles in historical and criminological journals. His major interests involve the means by which social problems are constructed and presented in politics and the media.
-A thorough and informative study of how social panics about
perceived moral dangers to children were created and maintained in
the Britain of the 1980s. Jenkins (Pennsylvania State Univ.)
examines the social context of changing values and political and
economic climates supporting beliefs that child abuse, pedophilia,
and even satanism were rampant threats to social order, to explain
the panic over apparent ritual abuse of children that broke out in
1990-91... This solid, well-written contribution can be read
profitably by everyone with an interest in modern British society.
Undergraduate; graduate; faculty.- --M. J. Moore, Choice -Intimate
Enemies describes the creation of a journalistically induced panic
in Great Britain during the 1980s--a decade of intense concern
about a closely related set of perceived problems: abuse of
children, child pornography, satanic rituals, and serial murder.
The book traces how such problems were reformulated in the course
of the decade, and how they served as a focus for broadly held
fears about changes in British society and national identity....
Intimate Enemies is an important addition to the field of
collective behavior and social movements.- --Karen Glumm, American
Journal of Sociology
"A thorough and informative study of how social panics about
perceived moral dangers to children were created and maintained in
the Britain of the 1980s. Jenkins (Pennsylvania State Univ.)
examines the social context of changing values and political and
economic climates supporting beliefs that child abuse, pedophilia,
and even satanism were rampant threats to social order, to explain
the panic over apparent ritual abuse of children that broke out in
1990-91... This solid, well-written contribution can be read
profitably by everyone with an interest in modern British society.
Undergraduate; graduate; faculty." --M. J. Moore, Choice "Intimate
Enemies describes the creation of a journalistically induced panic
in Great Britain during the 1980s--a decade of intense concern
about a closely related set of perceived problems: abuse of
children, child pornography, satanic rituals, and serial murder.
The book traces how such problems were reformulated in the course
of the decade, and how they served as a focus for broadly held
fears about changes in British society and national identity....
Intimate Enemies is an important addition to the field of
collective behavior and social movements." --Karen Glumm, American
Journal of Sociology
"A thorough and informative study of how social panics about
perceived moral dangers to children were created and maintained in
the Britain of the 1980s. Jenkins (Pennsylvania State Univ.)
examines the social context of changing values and political and
economic climates supporting beliefs that child abuse, pedophilia,
and even satanism were rampant threats to social order, to explain
the panic over apparent ritual abuse of children that broke out in
1990-91... This solid, well-written contribution can be read
profitably by everyone with an interest in modern British society.
Undergraduate; graduate; faculty." --M. J. Moore, Choice "Intimate
Enemies describes the creation of a journalistically induced panic
in Great Britain during the 1980s--a decade of intense concern
about a closely related set of perceived problems: abuse of
children, child pornography, satanic rituals, and serial murder.
The book traces how such problems were reformulated in the course
of the decade, and how they served as a focus for broadly held
fears about changes in British society and national identity....
Intimate Enemies is an important addition to the field of
collective behavior and social movements." --Karen Glumm, American
Journal of Sociology
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