Our Monica, Ourselves The Clinton Affair and the National Interest

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Berlant, Lauren, editor (editor), Duggan, Lisa A., editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press [2001]
Colección:Sexual cultures.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009817327206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Culture Wars of the 1960s and the Assault on the Presidency
  • 2. The Symbolics of Presidentialism
  • 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
  • 8. The Return of the Oppressed
  • 9. Trashing the Presidency
  • 10. Moniker
  • 11. Monica Dreyfus
  • 12. The President’s Penis
  • 13. ’Tis Pity He’s a Whore
  • 14. Loose Lips
  • 15. Sexuality’s Archive
  • 16. Sex and Civility
  • 17. “He Has Wronged America and Women”
  • 18. Sexual Risk Management in the Clinton White House
  • Contributors