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Hardly Sallygate: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Sex Scandal That Wasn’t
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction: Sex Scandals and Discourses of Power 1
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1 Sex Scandals in U.S. Politics: Theoretical, Social, and Historical Contexts
- Normal Sins: Sex Scandal Narratives as Institutional Morality Tales 39
- Power and Corruption: Political Competition and the Scandal Market 69
- Hardly Sallygate: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Sex Scandal That Wasn’t 101
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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 137
- Narrating Clinton’s Impeachment: Race, the Right, and Allegories of the Sixties 167
- Sexual Risk Management in the Clinton White House 185
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3 Privacy and Publicity, and the Conditions of Democratic Citizenship
- Privacy in the (Too Much) Information Age 213
- It Was the Spectacle, Stupid: The Clinton-Lewinsky-Starr Affair and the Politics of the Gaze 232
- Making (It) Public 259
- Notes on Contributors 273
- Index 275
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction: Sex Scandals and Discourses of Power 1
-
1 Sex Scandals in U.S. Politics: Theoretical, Social, and Historical Contexts
- Normal Sins: Sex Scandal Narratives as Institutional Morality Tales 39
- Power and Corruption: Political Competition and the Scandal Market 69
- Hardly Sallygate: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Sex Scandal That Wasn’t 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 137
- Narrating Clinton’s Impeachment: Race, the Right, and Allegories of the Sixties 167
- Sexual Risk Management in the Clinton White House 185
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3 Privacy and Publicity, and the Conditions of Democratic Citizenship
- Privacy in the (Too Much) Information Age 213
- It Was the Spectacle, Stupid: The Clinton-Lewinsky-Starr Affair and the Politics of the Gaze 232
- Making (It) Public 259
- Notes on Contributors 273
- Index 275