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Author:   Hinda Mandell (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) ,  Juliet Williams
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9798765130018

Pages:   264
Publication Date:   25 July 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"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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"""Mandell offers a painstakingly researched, revealing, and amusing exploration of sex scandals in U.S. politics. . . . This makes for a highly detailed and comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of sex scandals, as well of the underlying realities of power relations among men and women in politics. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty."" --Choice"

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Hinda Mandell is assistant professor in the School of Communication at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.

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