Public Affairs ：Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals

Publication subTitle ：Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals

Author： Paul Apostolidis  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2003

E-ISBN: 9780822385387

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822332657

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822332763

Subject： K7 Americas History

Keyword： 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.,Celebrities -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History.

Language： ENG

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Public affairs—or sex scandals—involving prominent politicians are as revealing of American culture as they are of individual peccadillos. Implicated in their unfolding are a broad range of institutions, trends, questions, and struggles, including political parties, Hollywood, the Christian right, new communications technologies, the restructuring of corporate media, feminist and civil rights debates, and the meaning of public life in the “society of the spectacle.” The contributors to Public Affairs examine, from a variety of perspectives, how political sex scandals take shape, gain momentum, and alter the U.S. political and cultural landscape.

The essays in Public Affairs reflect on a number of sex scandals while emphasizing the Clinton/Lewinsky affair, certainly the most avidly followed and momentous sex scandal in American political history. Leading scholars situate contemporary public affairs in the context not only of earlier sex scandals in American politics (such as Thomas Jefferson’s and Sally Hemings’s affair), but also of more purely political scandals (including Teapot Dome and Watergate) and sex scandals centered around public figures other than politicians (such as the actor Hugh Grant and the minister Jimmy Swaggart). Some essays consider the Clinton affair in light of feminist and anti-racist politics, while others discuss the dynamics of scandals as major media events. By charting a critical path th

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Sex Scandals and Discourses of Power

1 Sex Scandals in U.S. Politics: Theoretical, Social, and Historical Contexts

Normal Sins: Sex Scandal Narratives as Institutional Morality Tales

Power and Corruption: Political Competition and the Scandal Market

Hardly Sallygate: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Sex Scandal That Wasn’t

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

Narrating Clinton’s Impeachment: Race, the Right, and Allegories of the Sixties

Sexual Risk Management in the Clinton White House

3 Privacy and Publicity, and the Conditions of Democratic Citizenship

Privacy in the (Too Much) Information Age

It Was the Spectacle, Stupid: The Clinton-Lewinsky-Starr Affair and the Politics of the Gaze

Making (It) Public

Notes on Contributors

Index

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