Public affairs : politics in the age of sex scandals /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Apostolidis, Paul, 1965-, Williams, Juliet
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2004.
Subjects:	Scandals > United States > History. Political corruption > United States > History. Political culture > United States > History. Political ethics > United States > History. Politicians > United States > Sexual behavior > History. Celebrities > United States > Sexual behavior > History. Sexual ethics > United States > History. United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989. United States > Politics and government > 1989-

Table of Contents:

Sex scandals and discourses of power / Paul Apostolidis and Juliet Williams
Normal sins : sex scandal narratives as institutional morality tales / Joshua Gamson
Power and corruption : political competition and the scandal market / Theodore J. Lowi
Hardly Sallygate : Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the sex scandal that wasn't / Joshua Rothman
On "the dalliances of the commander-in-chief" : Christian Right scandal narratives in post-Fordist America / Paul Apostolidis
Narrating Clinton's impeachment : race, the Right, and allegories of the sixties / George Shulman
Sexual risk management in the Clinton White House / Anna Marie Smith
Privacy in the (too much) information age / Juliet Wlliams
It was the spectacle, stupid : the Clinton-Lewinsky-Starr affair and the politics of the gaze / Jeremy Varon
Making (it) public / Jodi Dean.