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11%OFFAndrea Slane - A Not So Foreign Affair: Fascism, Sexuality, and the Cultural Rhetoric of American Democracy - 9780822326939 - V9780822326939
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A Not So Foreign Affair: Fascism, Sexuality, and the Cultural Rhetoric of American Democracy

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Description for A Not So Foreign Affair: Fascism, Sexuality, and the Cultural Rhetoric of American Democracy Paperback. Suitable for those interested in cultural studies, film and video studies, American studies, twentieth century history, German studies, rhetoric, and sexuality studies, this book investigates the influence of images of Nazism on debates about sexuality that are central to contemporary American political rhetoric. Num Pages: 384 pages, 21 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; GTE; JFC; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
In A Not So Foreign Affair Andrea Slane investigates the influence of images of Nazism on debates about sexuality that are central to contemporary American political rhetoric. By analyzing an array of films, journalism, scholarly theories, melodrama, video, and propaganda literature, Slane describes a common rhetoric that emerged during the 1930s and 1940s as a means of distinguishing “democratic sexuality” from that ascribed to Nazi Germany.
World War II marked a turning point in the cultural rhetoric of democracy, Slane claims, because it intensified a preoccupation with the political role of private life and pushed sexuality to the center ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822326939
SKU
V9780822326939
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About Andrea Slane
Associate Professor in the Faculty of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Reviews for A Not So Foreign Affair: Fascism, Sexuality, and the Cultural Rhetoric of American Democracy
“Slane writes elegantly, clearly, and with a careful rigor out of which come startling observations. A Not So Foreign Affair situates itself within a new and very important field in which contemporary conservatism is given the same kind of sophisticated theoretical treatment as avant-garde work has received in the past.”—Linda Kintz, author of Between Jesus and the Market: The Emotions ... Read more

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