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Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution
Anna Clark
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Description for Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution
Paperback. Are sex scandals simply trivial distractions from serious issues or can they help democratize politics? Looking at six major British scandals between 1763 and 1820, this book demonstrates that scandals brought people into politics because they evoked familiar stories of sex and betrayal. Num Pages: 328 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
Are sex scandals simply trivial distractions from serious issues or can they help democratize politics? In 1820, George IV's "royal gambols" with his mistresses endangered the Old Oak of the constitution. When he tried to divorce Queen Caroline for adultery, the resulting scandal enabled activists to overcome state censorship and revitalize reform. Looking at six major British scandals between 1763 and 1820, this book demonstrates that scandals brought people into politics because they evoked familiar stories of sex and betrayal. In vibrant prose woven with vivid character sketches and illustrations, Anna Clark explains that activists used these stories to illustrate ... Read more
Are sex scandals simply trivial distractions from serious issues or can they help democratize politics? In 1820, George IV's "royal gambols" with his mistresses endangered the Old Oak of the constitution. When he tried to divorce Queen Caroline for adultery, the resulting scandal enabled activists to overcome state censorship and revitalize reform. Looking at six major British scandals between 1763 and 1820, this book demonstrates that scandals brought people into politics because they evoked familiar stories of sex and betrayal. In vibrant prose woven with vivid character sketches and illustrations, Anna Clark explains that activists used these stories to illustrate ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691126012
SKU
V9780691126012
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99-1
About Anna Clark
Anna Clark Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, and the editor of the "Journal of British Studies". She is the author of "The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class", which won the British Council Book Prize of the North American Conference on British Studies. She is also the author of many ... Read more
Reviews for Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution
"Between 1760 and 1820, scandal was a serious business, for both press and politicians, so it is appropriate for a historian to take it seriously now. Anna Clark ... brings important issues of political history from the margins to the centre. The real scandal, as this book shows, lay in the much-vaunted British constitution, which concentrated power in political and ... Read more