Scandal
The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution
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 thes…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-691-12601-2
- EAN: 9780691126012
- Produktnummer: 1945583
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.9 cm 530 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 530
Über den Autor
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 other works in the field of British history, gender history, and the history of sexuality.
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