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Our Monica, ourselves : the Clinton affair and the national interest / edited by Lauren Berlant and Lisa Duggan.

Title: Our Monica, ourselves : the Clinton affair and the national interest / edited by Lauren Berlant and Lisa Duggan.
Publication: New York : New York University Press, c2001.

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vii, 340 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

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 is often wild and bizarre, yet replete with serious political and cultural implications? Our Monica, Ourselves provides a forum for thinking through the cultural, political, and public policy issues raised by the investigation, publicity, and Congressional impeachment proceedings surrounding the affair. It pulls this spectacle out of the framework provided by the conventions of the corporate news media, with its particular notions of what constitutes a newsworthy event. Drawing from a broad range of scholars, Our Monica, Ourselves considers Monica Lewinsky's Jewishness, Linda Tripp's face, the President's penis, the role of shame in public discourse, and what it's like to have sex as the president, as well as specific legal and historical issues at stake in the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Thoughtful but accessible, immediate yet far reaching, Our Monica, Ourselves will change the way we think about the Clinton affair, while helping us reimagine culture and politics writ large. -- Amazon.com.

Series Statement

Sexual cultures

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Project Muse UPCC books
Sexual cultures

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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committed to retain

Contents

The culture wars of the 1960s and the assault on the presidency : the meaning of the Clinton impeachment / Eli Zaretsky -- The symbolics of presidentialism : sex and democratic identification / Dana D. Nelson and Tyler Curtain -- The face that launched a thousand jokes / Laura Kipnis -- It's not about sex / James R. Kincaid -- The door ajar : the erotics of hypocrisy in the White House scandal / Simone Weil Davis -- Sex of a kind : on graphic language and the modesty of television news / Sasha Torres -- The first penis impeached / Toby Miller -- The return of the oppressed / Frederick C. Moten and B Jenkins -- Trashing the presidency : race, class, and the Clinton/Lewinsky affair / Micki McElya -- Moniker / Marjorie Garber -- Monica Dreyfus / Tomasz Kitlinski, Pawel Leszkowicz, and Joe Lockard -- The president's penis : entertaining sex and power / Catharine Lumby -- 'Tis pity he's a whore / Ellen Willis -- Loose lips / Jane Gallop with Lauren Berlant -- Sexuality's archive : the evidence of the Starr report / Ann Cvetkovich -- Sex and civility / Eric O. Clarke -- "He has wronged America and women" : Clinton's sexual conservatism / Janet R. Jakobsen -- Sexual risk management in the Clinton White House / Anna Marie Smith.

ISBN

0814798659 (alk. paper)
0814798640 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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^^^00012212^

OCLC

45320667

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Harvard Library