You Don't Say: Modern American Inhibitions

by Benjamin DeMott

Book Overview

In this era of political correctness, it is often impossible to say things as one would like. Indeed, certain ways of feeling and talking that were once acceptable are now, in effect, forbidden. Of course, taboos extend further than speech. Social and sexual inhibitions are also evident. Benjamin DeMott argues that the very least a society should do is to try to understand the meaning of its own inhibitions. As he writes in this new edition of You...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076580851X
• ISBN13: 9780765808516
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"