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1 online resource |
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Gender matters in U.S. politics
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Gender matters in U.S. politics.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Political Sex Scandals: How and Why Gender Matters -- 2. Brief History of Political Sex Scandals -- 3. What a Joke: Philandering Politicians Get the Cartoon Treatment -- 4. When Mistresses Become Media Starlets: The Ascension of the Political Sex-Scandal Celebrity -- 5. Political Wives, Scandal, and the Double Bind: Press Coverage through a Gendered Lens -- 6. Have I Got a Story for You: State Lawmakers Confront Scandal in the New York Assembly -- 7. "How Can People Be So Dumb and Still Be in Politics?" Public Response to Prominent Scandals -- 8. In Sickness and Scandal: Married Couples Navigate Scandal in the News -- 9. Concluding Thoughts: Scandal and Gender in the 21st Century. |
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Scandal, Age, and Gender; Chapter 3. What a Joke: Philandering Politicians Get the Cartoon Treatment; Which Metaphors Do Cartoonists Employ in Scandal Cartoons?; How Do Political Cartoons on Sex Scandals Do Gender?; Selecting Scandals for Cartoon Analysis; Metaphors in Scandal Cartoons: Underwear; Metaphors in Scandal Cartoons: Bill Clinton; Clinton as Hypocrite; Clinton as Liar; Clinton as Nonthreatening "Deviant"; Faltering Masculinity in Scandal Cartoons; Evaluating the Scandal-Tarnished Politicians; Ignorant to His Demise; Idiot/Goof; Prompts Disgust/Outrage; Down and Out; Hypocrisy. |
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Cartoon Depiction of Political Wives; Making Sense of How Cartoons "Do" Gender; Chapter 4. When Mistresses Become Media Starlets: The Ascension of the Political Sex-Scandal Celebrity; The Newspapers; The Women; Female Publicity in Sex Scandals; Ashley Dupré; Sydney Leathers; The Sexpot Versus the Sexter; Political Clowns; Life, Post-Scandal; Female Publicity and Scandal; Chapter 5. Political Wives, Scandal, and the Double Bind: Press Coverage through a Gendered Lens; Background on Political Sex Scandals; Scandal and Wifeness; Media Coverage of Political Wives and Political Women; Method. |
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The Ideological Construction of the Symbolic "Good Wife"; Jenny Sanford Breaks the Mold; Press Reconstruction of Wifeness; Chapter 6. Have I Got a Story for You: State Lawmakers Confront Scandal in the New York Assembly; The Scandal Taint; The Scandals and Their Aftermath; Vito Lopez (2012); Micah Kellner (2013); Dennis Gabryszak (2014); Methodology; A Snapshot of the Assembly Members Who Participated in This Study; Accessing the Assembly Through Stories; Narrative Inquiry and Story Analysis; The Gender Divide; Anecdote 1: Vito Lopez, His "Odd Ducks," and An Intern. |
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Dichotomies: "Odd Ducks," Cuteness, and the Public/Private Divide; Subordinate Silence; Contradiction: "Odd Ducks" Who Are "Attractive"; The Age Difference; Revisiting the "Odd Ducks" Under a "Spell"; The Double Entendre of the Man Who "Has These Women"; Reconstructing the Story; Anecdote 2: Intern Matchmaking Gone Awry; Dismantling the Dichotomy of Collegiality; Examining Silence; Attending to Disruptions: Cordiality-or Meddling?; Element Most Alien to the Text: Antagonistic Body Language; Double Entendre of "Having" Interns; Reconstructing the Story. |
| Summary |
The increasing tabloidization of politics and focus on politicians involved in sex scandals is both problematic and important. This book examines how gender impacts political sex scandals in the United States, in the past and today; explains how political sex scandals contribute to the mistrust of government; and identifies why these titillating events do have serious consequences for our political system. |
| Local Note |
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Political corruption -- United States.
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Politicians -- Sexual behavior -- United States.
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Sex scandals -- United States.
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Sex scandals -- Press coverage -- United States.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference. |
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Political corruption |
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Politicians -- Sexual behavior |
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Sex scandals |
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United States |
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Print version: Mandell, Hinda. Sex scandals, gender, and power in contemporary American politics. Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017] 9781440843273 (DLC) 2016054600 (OCoLC)974911172 |
| ISBN |
9781440843280 (electronic book) |
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1440843287 (electronic book) |
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9781440843273 (hardcopy alkaline paper) |
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1440843279 |
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