Compromising positions : sex scandals, politics, and American Christianity

Compromising positions : sex scandals, politics, and American Christianity / Leslie Dorrough Smith.

'Compromising Positions' argues that sex scandals aren't really about sex. Rather, they are a form of cultural theatre - a moment of highly visible, public storytelling - the purpose of which is to use specific racial and gendered symbols to create a collective sense of national worth...

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Main Author: Smith, Leslie Dorrough, 1975- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Sex scandals > United States.
Politicians > Sexual behavior > United States.
Christianity and politics > United States.
Sex > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Evangelicalism > United States.
Christianity and politics
Evangelicalism
Politicians > Sexual behavior
Sex > Religious aspects > Christianity
Sex scandals
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Compromising positions : political sex scandals and American Christianity
  • Sex scandals, national fantasies, and the stories we tell
  • Scandal : the story of wayward men (featuring a full cast, with special guest star, Donald Trump)
  • Religion : the story of right and wrong (featuring Mark Foley and Roy Moore)
  • Sex : the story of feminists and whores (featuring Anita Hill and Paula Jones)
  • Nation : the story of American values (featuring Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, and John Edwards)
  • Media : the story of just desserts (featuring Anthony Weiner and Arnold Schwarzenegger)
  • Brett Kavanaugh and the contradictions of American masculinity (featuring Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford, Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, with a role reprisal by Donald Trump).

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