The Sex Obsession : : Perversity and Possibility in American Politics / / Janet R. Jakobsen.

Offers a way to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion, and powerAmerican politics are obsessed with sex. Before the first televised presidential debate, John F. Kennedy trailed Richard Nixon in the polls. As Americans tuned in, however, they found Kennedy a younger, more viv...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Sexual Cultures ; 55
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Why Sex?
  • 1. Because Religion
  • 2. Because Morality, Because Materiality
  • 3. Because the Social
  • 4. Because Stasis
  • Conclusion: Melancholy Utopias
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author