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The Starr Report Disrobed
Fedwa Malti-Douglas
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Description for The Starr Report Disrobed
paperback. Fedwa Malti-Douglas reveals how The Starr Report exposed the cultural tendencies, desires, and taboos of Americans while it disrobed the most powerful man in the world. Fraught with assumptions about gender and sexuality, the report reflects a strategy to use Clinton's "body natural" to undermine his "body politic." Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317.
"What is this strange book" asks Fedwa Malti-Douglas, "that can bring the American presidency to its knees?" In this probing study of Kenneth W. Starr's influential and historic work, she reveals how The Starr Report exposed the cultural tendencies, desires, and taboos of Americans while it disrobed the most powerful man in the world. Unveiling the political and ideological implications of the report's relentless pursuit of corporeal and prurient detail, Malti-Douglas underscores the document's ground-breaking nature-both for its legal and cultural content. What does the report imply about American values when it repeatedly points to the dates on which trysts ... Read more
"What is this strange book" asks Fedwa Malti-Douglas, "that can bring the American presidency to its knees?" In this probing study of Kenneth W. Starr's influential and historic work, she reveals how The Starr Report exposed the cultural tendencies, desires, and taboos of Americans while it disrobed the most powerful man in the world. Unveiling the political and ideological implications of the report's relentless pursuit of corporeal and prurient detail, Malti-Douglas underscores the document's ground-breaking nature-both for its legal and cultural content. What does the report imply about American values when it repeatedly points to the dates on which trysts ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231119337
SKU
V9780231119337
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About Fedwa Malti-Douglas
Fedwa Malti-Douglas is The Martha C. Kraft Professor of Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University, where she is also professor of gender studies and comparative literature. She has published numerous scholarly books, as well as a satirical novel, Hisland: Adventures in Ac-Ac-ademe.
Reviews for The Starr Report Disrobed
Writing with wit, verve, and sharp perception, Fedwa Malti-Douglas provides fresh ways of understanding the Starr Report in relation to lasting issues of gender relations, narrative technique, and attitudes toward the body. Her deft cultural and textual analysis will give her readers lasting insight as well as immediate pleasure.
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