Sex Scandals, Gender, and Power in Contemporary American Politics

Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
1 Political Sex Scandals: How and Why Gender Matters
2 A Brief History of Political Sex Scandals
3 What a Joke: Philandering Politicians Get the Cartoon Treatment
4 When Mistresses Become Media Starlets: The Ascension of the Political Sex-Scandal Celebrity
5 Political Wives, Scandal, and the Double Bind: Press Coverage through a Gendered Lens
6 Have I Got a Story for You: State Lawmakers Confront Scandal in the New York Assembly
7 "How Can People Be So Dumb and Still Be in Politics?" Public Response to Prominent Scandals
8 In Sickness and Scandal: Married Couples Navigate Scandal in the News
9 Concluding Thoughts: Scandal and Gender in the 21st Century
Appendix A: Scandal-Defining Variables for Scandal Compilation
Appendix B: Guiding Questions for Textual Analysis of Printed Text
Appendix C: Interview Protocol for Married Couples
Notes
Index

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• Opressão e perseguição política
• Estrutura e processos políticos
• Os estudos de gênero, grupos de gênero

Abuse of Power; Gender; Gender Representations in the Media; Infidelity; Media; Media Frenzies; Mistrust of Government; Political Cartoons; Political Corruption; Political Mistresses; Political Sex Scandals; Political Wives; Politics; What Constitutes Power