{"product_id":"public-affairs-9780822332657","title":"Public Affairs","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollection of essays analyzing political sex scandals and U.S. political culture from a variety of theoretical angles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“People interested in political theory, political culture, mass media, and civil liberties will find this a most interesting and provocative volume. Informed by a diversity of theoretical frames, \u003ci\u003ePublic Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e also offers several unifying themes, including the difficulty of drawing bright-line boundaries between the ‘public’ and ‘private’ realms.”—Norman L. Rosenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eProtecting the Best Men: An Interpretive History of the Law of Libel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Public Affairs \u003c\/i\u003eis 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Sex Scandals and Discourses of Power \/ Paul Apostolidis and Juliet A. Williams 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Sex Scandals in U.S. Politics: Theoretical, Social, and Historical Contexts \u003cbr\u003e Normal Sins: Sex Scandal Narratives as Institutional Morality Tales \/ Joshua Gamson 39\u003cbr\u003e Power and Corruption: Political Competition and the Scandal Market \/ Theodore J. Lowi 69\u003cbr\u003e Hardly Sallygate: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Sex Scandal That Wasn't \/ Joshua D. Rothman 101\u003cbr\u003e 2. Class, Race, and Gender in the Clinton Scandal \u003cbr\u003e On \"The Dalliances of the Commander in Chief\": Christian Right Scandal Narratives in Post-Fordist America \/ Paul Apostolidis 137\u003cbr\u003e Narrating Clinton's Impeachment: Race, the Right, and Allegories of the Sixties \/ George Shulman 167\u003cbr\u003e Sexual Risk Management in the Clinton White House \/ Anna Marie Smith 185\u003cbr\u003e 3. Privacy and Publicity, and the Conditions of Democratic Citizenship \u003cbr\u003e Privacy in the (Too Much) Information Age \/ Juliet A. Williams 213\u003cbr\u003e It Was the Spectacle, Stupid: The Clinton-Lewinsky-Starr Affair and the Politics of the Gaze \/ Jeremy Varon 232\u003cbr\u003e Making (It) Public \/ Jodi Dean 259\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors 273\u003cbr\u003e Index 275","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406034641239,"sku":"9780822332657","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822332657.jpg?v=1730494317","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/public-affairs-9780822332657","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}