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.

Introduction

On Being Becoming
Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz

1. Aristotle's Aesthetiquette
Nickolas Pappas

2. The Art of the Dis: Hip-Hop's Battle Royale
Lynne d Johnson

3. Gay Etiquette: A Brief Consideration
Jeff Weinstein

4. The Breathing Breach of Etiquette
Kenneth J. Saltman

5. The Etiquette of Adoption
Michael D. Colberg

6. Impolitics: Toward a Resistant Comportment
Trent H. Hamann

7. Coldness and Civility
Alison Leigh Brown

8. Eating Dogs and Women: Abject Rules of Etiquette in 301/302
Tina Chanter

9. The Taciturn Tongue: On Silence
Brian Schroeder

10. Handy Etiquette
David Farrell Krell

11. Murder So Bland: The Implosion of Disetiquette
Mark S. Roberts

12. Branded from the Start: The Paradox of (the) American (Novel of) Manners
Hildegard Hoeller

13. "Make Yourself Useful!"
Shannon Winnubst

14. The American Guest
Kevin MacDonald

15. A Place Where the Soul Can Rest
bell hooks

16. Slurping Soda, Twirling Spaghetti: Etiquette, Fascism, and Pleasure
Don Hanlon Johnson

17. Make It Look Easy: Thoughts on Social Grace
Karmen MacKendrick

18. Etiquette and Missle Defense
Robin Truth Goodman

19. Odysseus Lies
Thomas Thorp

20. Take Clothes, For Example
Hazel E. Barnes

List of Contributors
Index