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Compromising positions : sex scandals, politics, and American Christianity / Leslie Dorrough Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Leslie Dorrough, 1975- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex scandals--United States.
- Sex scandals.
- Politicians--Sexual behavior--United States.
- Politicians.
- Political leadership--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Political leadership.
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- '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 and strength. To arrive at this conclusion, the text charts the ways in which attitudes about gender, race, and religion are woven together to create a certain sort of rhetoric about what America is, who is eligible to formally represent it, and what types of religiosity such leaders must display in order to legitimize their power.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 10, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-092410-1
- 0-19-092408-X
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