Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals

Published by Duke University Press 2004

Public Affairs

Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals

Edited by: Paul Apostolidis and Juliet A. Williams
With contributions by: Joshua Gamson and Ted Lowi

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822385387

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About this book

Collection of essays analyzing political sex scandals and U.S. political culture from a variety of theoretical angles, including feminism, cultural studies, Marxist critical theory, queer theory, and critical race theory.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“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, Public Affairs also offers several unifying themes, including the difficulty of drawing bright-line boundaries between the ‘public’ and ‘private’ realms.”—Norman L. Rosenberg, author of Protecting the Best Men: An Interpretive History of the Law of Libel

“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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Sex Scandals and Discourses of Power Paul Apostolidis and Juliet A. Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Sex Scandals in U.S. Politics: Theoretical, Social, and Historical Contexts
Normal Sins: Sex Scandal Narratives as Institutional Morality Tales Joshua Gamson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Power and Corruption: Political Competition and the Scandal Market Theodore J. Lowi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Hardly Sallygate: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Sex Scandal That Wasn’t Joshua D. Rothman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Narrating Clinton’s Impeachment: Race, the Right, and Allegories of the Sixties George Shulman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Sexual Risk Management in the Clinton White House Anna Marie Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
3 Privacy and Publicity, and the Conditions of Democratic Citizenship
Privacy in the (Too Much) Information Age Juliet A. Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
It Was the Spectacle, Stupid: The Clinton-Lewinsky-Starr Affair and the Politics of the Gaze Jeremy Varon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Making (It) Public Jodi Dean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 288

eBook

Published: January 14, 2004
ISBN: 9780822385387