Acknowledgments  vii

Introduction: Sex Scandals and Discourses of Power / Paul Apostolidis and Juliet A. Williams  1

1. Sex Scandals in U.S. Politics: Theoretical, Social, and Historical Contexts  

Normal Sins: Sex Scandal Narratives as Institutional Morality Tales / Joshua Gamson  39

Power and Corruption: Political Competition and the Scandal Market / Theodore J. Lowi  69

Hardly Sallygate: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Sex Scandal That Wasn't / Joshua D. Rothman  101

2. Class, Race, and Gender in the Clinton Scandal  

On "The Dalliances of the Commander in Chief": Christian Right Scandal Narratives in Post-Fordist America / Paul Apostolidis  137

Narrating Clinton's Impeachment: Race, the Right, and Allegories of the Sixties / George Shulman  167

Sexual Risk Management in the Clinton White House / Anna Marie Smith  185

3. Privacy and Publicity, and the Conditions of Democratic Citizenship  

Privacy in the (Too Much) Information Age / Juliet A. Williams  213

It Was the Spectacle, Stupid: The Clinton-Lewinsky-Starr Affair and the Politics of the Gaze / Jeremy Varon  232

Making (It) Public / Jodi Dean  259

Notes on Contributors  273

Index  275

Joshua Gamson

Ted Lowi

Joshua D. Rothman

Paul Apostolidis

George Shulman

Anna Marie Smith

Juliet A. Williams

Jeremy Varon

Jodi Dean

"[E]clectic works invite readers to a cross-disciplinary dialogue, and here the volume does not disappoint. . . . Recommended."—B.E. Marston, CHOICE

"[E]clectic works invite readers to a cross-disciplinary dialogue, and here the volume does not disappoint. . . . Recommended."—B.E. Marston, CHOICE

“People interested in political theory, political culture, mass media, and civil liberties will find this a most interesting and provocative volume. Informed by a diversity of theoretical frames, Public Affairs also offers several unifying themes, including the difficulty of drawing bright-line boundaries between the ‘public’ and ‘private’ realms.”—Norman L. Rosenberg, author of Protecting the Best Men: An Interpretive History of the Law of Libel

“Public Affairs is a lively, timely exploration of sex scandals and their significance to a democratic public. A provocative joining of cultural studies to political science, this collection is especially important to feminist scholars for its examination of the ways that scandals redefine the public/private distinction. It will also challenge scholars of democracy for its stimulating treatment of scandal and citizen agency.”—Lisa Disch, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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