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Informationen zum Autor Paul Apostolidis is Associate Professor of Politics at Whitman College. He is the author of Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio, published by Duke University Press.Juliet A. Williams is Assistant Professor in the Law and Society and Women’s Studies Programs at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Klappentext ""Public Affairs "is a lively, timely exploration of sex scandals and their significance to a democratic public. A provocative joining of cultural studies to political science, this collection is especially important to feminist scholars for its examination of the ways that scandals redefine the public/private distinction. It will also challenge scholars of democracy for its stimulating treatment of scandal and citizen agency."--Lisa Disch, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Zusammenfassung Collection of essays analyzing political sex scandals and U.S. political culture from a variety of theoretical angles Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Sex Scandals and Discourses of Power / Paul Apostolidis and Juliet A. Williams 1 1. Sex Scandals in U.S. Politics: Theoretical, Social, and Historical Contexts Normal Sins: Sex Scandal Narratives as Institutional Morality Tales / Joshua Gamson 39 Power and Corruption: Political Competition and the Scandal Market / Theodore J. Lowi 69 Hardly Sallygate: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Sex Scandal That Wasn't / Joshua D. Rothman 101 2. Class, Race, and Gender in the Clinton Scandal On "The Dalliances of the Commander in Chief": Christian Right Scandal Narratives in Post-Fordist America / Paul Apostolidis 137 Narrating Clinton's Impeachment: Race, the Right, and Allegories of the Sixties / George Shulman 167 Sexual Risk Management in the Clinton White House / Anna Marie Smith 185 3. Privacy and Publicity, and the Conditions of Democratic Citizenship Privacy in the (Too Much) Information Age / Juliet A. Williams 213 It Was the Spectacle, Stupid: The Clinton-Lewinsky-Starr Affair and the Politics of the Gaze / Jeremy Varon 232 Making (It) Public / Jodi Dean 259 Notes on Contributors 273 Index 275...
