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N2  - 'Compromising Positions' argues that sex scandals aren't really about sex. Rather, they are a form of cultural theatre - a moment of highly visible, public storytelling - the purpose of which is to use specific racial and gendered symbols to create a collective sense of national worth and strength. To arrive at this conclusion, the text charts the ways in which attitudes about gender, race, and religion are woven together to create a certain sort of rhetoric about what America is, who is eligible to formally represent it, and what types of religiosity such leaders must display in order to legitimize their power.
AB  - 'Compromising Positions' argues that sex scandals aren't really about sex. Rather, they are a form of cultural theatre - a moment of highly visible, public storytelling - the purpose of which is to use specific racial and gendered symbols to create a collective sense of national worth and strength. To arrive at this conclusion, the text charts the ways in which attitudes about gender, race, and religion are woven together to create a certain sort of rhetoric about what America is, who is eligible to formally represent it, and what types of religiosity such leaders must display in order to legitimize their power.
T1  - Compromising positions :sex scandals, politics, and American Christianity /
AU  - Smith, Leslie Dorrough,
CN  - Oxford Scholarship Online
CN  - JK468.L43
ID  - 938010
KW  - Sex scandals
KW  - Politicians
KW  - Political leadership
SN  - 9780190924102 
TI  - Compromising positions :sex scandals, politics, and American Christianity /
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190924072.001.0001
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190924072.001.0001
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