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Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle : The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008

Online-Ressource (416 p.)

Englisch

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. PLAYERS; 3. PRIVACY AND HONOR; 4. GROUPS; 5. INDIVIDUALS; 6. SEX; 7. APOLOGY; 8. AFTERWORD;

Description based upon print version of record

Print version: Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle : The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States

978-0-226-89408-9

978-0-226-89408-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 560609321     

978-0-226-89411-9 ( : 47.5 (NL))

DS821.W36 2006

302.2/4     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books

Japan ; Social life and customs ; Law ; Japan ; Law ; United States ; Scandals ; Japan ; Scandals ; United States ; United States ; Social life and customs ; Electronic books

A leader of a global superpower is betrayed by his mistress, who makes public the sordid details of their secret affair. His wife stands by as he denies the charges. Debates over definitions of moral leadership ensue. Sound familiar? If you guessed Clinton and Lewinsky, try again. This incident involved former Japanese prime minister Sosuke Uno and a geisha. In Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle, Mark D. West organizes the seemingly random worlds of Japanese and American scandal-from corporate fraud to baseball cheaters, political corruption to celebrity sexcapades-to explore well-ingrained similarit