Compromising Positions: Sex Scandals, Politics, and American Christianity

ISBN-13: 9780190924072 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 312 str.

Leslie Smith

Recenzje

With her characteristic combination of humor and incisive analysis, Leslie Dorrough Smith offers a cool-headed consideration of the scripts and stages actors use to perform public moral outrage about sex scandals in US political theater. Paying particular attention to codifications of race and gender in these performances, Compromising Positions brilliantly responds to media echo chambers by asking its readers to slip into something a little less comfortable.

O autorze

Leslie Dorrough Smith is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Avila University. She is also the author of Righteous Rhetoric: Sex, Speech, and the Politics of Concerned Women for America (Oxford, 2014). Her areas of specialty include evangelicalism in America, its impact on sex, gender, and reproduction issues, and feminist theory, more broadly.