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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berlant, Lauren, Editor.

Duggan, Lisa A., Editor.

Series:

Sexual cultures.

Sexual Cultures ; 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lewinsky, Monica S. (Monica Samille), 1973-.

Lewinsky, Monica S.

Clinton, Bill, 1946---Impeachment.

Clinton, Bill.

Clinton, Bill, 1946---Sexual behavior.

Sexual ethics--United States.

Sexual ethics.

Sex--Social aspects--United States.

Sex.

Culture conflict--United States.

Culture conflict.

Political culture--United States.

Political culture.

United States--Moral conditions.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1993-2001.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

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. Contributors include: Lauren Berlant, Eric O. Clarke, Ann Cvetkovich, Simone Weil Davis, Lisa Duggan, Jane Gallop, Marjorie Garber, Janet R. Jakobsen, James R. Kincaid, Laura Kipnis, Tomasz Kitlinski, Pawel Leszkowicz, Joe Lockard, Catharine Lumby, Toby Miller, Dana D. Nelson, Anna Marie Smith, Ellen Willis, and Eli Zaretsky.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

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ISBN:

9780814739280

0814739288

OCLC:

782877959