Our Monica, Ourselves : : The Clinton Affair and the National Interest /

Our Monica, Ourselves : : The Clinton Affair and the National Interest / / ed. by Lisa A. Duggan, Lauren Berlant.

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Alongside the O.J. Simpson trial, the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky now stands as the seminal cultural event of the 90s. Alternatively transfixed and repelled by this sexual scandal, confusion still reigns over its meanings and implications. How are we to make sense of a tale that...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Berlant, Lauren,
Clarke, Eric O.,
Curtain, Tyler,
Cvetkovich, Ann,
Duggan, Lisa,
Gallop, Jane,
Garber, Marjorie,
Jakobsen, Janet R.,
Jenkins, B,
Kincaid, James R.,
Kipnis, Laura,
Kitlinski, Tomasz,
Leszkowicz, Pawel,
Lockard, Joe,
Lumby, Catharine,
McElya, Micki,
Miller, Toby,
Moten, Frederick C.,
Nelson, Dana D.,
Smith, Anna Marie,
Torres, Sasha,
Weil Davis, Simone,
Willis, Ellen,
Zaretsky, Eli,
HerausgeberIn:
Berlant, Lauren,
Duggan, Lisa A.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
Series:Sexual Cultures ; 37
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. DEMOCRACY AND PRESIDENTIALISM
  • 1. The Culture Wars of the 1960s and the Assault on the Presidency
  • 2. The Symbolics of Presidentialism
  • Part 2. BODILY IMAGINARIES AND SEXUAL PRACTICES
  • 3. The Face That Launched a Thousand Jokes
  • 4. It’s Not about Sex
  • 5. The Door Ajar
  • 6. Sex of a Kind
  • 7. The First Penis Impeached
  • Part 3. FANTASIES OF RACE, CLASS, AND ETHNICITY
  • 8. The Return of the Oppressed
  • 9. Trashing the Presidency
  • 10. Moniker
  • 11. Monica Dreyfus
  • Part 4. FEMINISM AND SEXUAL POLITICS
  • 12. The President’s Penis
  • 13. ’Tis Pity He’s a Whore
  • 14. Loose Lips
  • 15. Sexuality’s Archive
  • Part 5. ETHICS AND MORALITY
  • 16. Sex and Civility
  • 17. “He Has Wronged America and Women”
  • 18. Sexual Risk Management in the Clinton White House
  • Contributors

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