Etiquette

Ron Scapp is Professor of Humanities and Teacher Education at the College of Mount Saint Vincent. He is the author of Teaching Values: Critical Perspectives on Education, Politics, and Culture. Brian Seitz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Babson College. He is the author of The Trace of Political Representation and coeditor (with Ron Scapp) of Eating Culture, both also published by SUNY Press.

• IntroductionOn Being BecomingRon Scapp and Brian Seitz1. Aristotle's AesthetiquetteNickolas Pappas 2. The Art of the Dis: Hip-Hop's Battle RoyaleLynne d Johnson 3. Gay Etiquette: A Brief ConsiderationJeff Weinstein 4. The Breathing Breach of EtiquetteKenneth J. Saltman 5. The Etiquette of AdoptionMichael D. Colberg 6. Impolitics: Toward a Resistant ComportmentTrent H. Hamann 7. Coldness and CivilityAlison Leigh Brown 8. Eating Dogs and Women: Abject Rules of Etiquette in 301/302Tina Chanter9. The Taciturn Tongue: On SilenceBrian Schroeder10. Handy EtiquetteDavid Farrell Krell 11. Murder So Bland: The Implosion of DisetiquetteMark S. Roberts12. Branded from the Start: The Paradox of (the) American (Novel of) MannersHildegard Hoeller13. "Make Yourself Useful!"Shannon Winnubst14. The American GuestKevin MacDonald15. A Place Where the Soul Can Restbell hooks16. Slurping Soda, Twirling Spaghetti: Etiquette, Fascism, and PleasureDon Hanlon Johnson17. Make It Look Easy: Thoughts on Social GraceKarmen MacKendrick18. Etiquette and Missle DefenseRobin Truth Goodman19. Odysseus LiesThomas Thorp20. Take Clothes, For ExampleHazel E. BarnesList of ContributorsIndex

"…the essays are great fun and … show the variety of rules for society's subcultures." — CHOICE"There have been many books on civility in recent years, and of course there are popular manuals of etiquette, but I don't know of any other book that connects the supposedly larger and deeper questions of the polis with matters of everyday comportment. Perhaps the greatest intellectual contribution this book makes is to show connections where one would have not previously looked for them. Given how absent the question of class has been from much social theory, political philosophy, and even feminism and critical race theory, the essays focusing on how much the norms of 'polite society' have to do with reinforcing class structures are refreshing." — Bill Martin, DePaul University