Hinda Mandell is assistant professor in the School of Communication at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.

• Series ForewordAcknowledgments1 Political Sex Scandals: How and Why Gender Matters2 A Brief History of Political Sex Scandals3 What a Joke: Philandering Politicians Get the Cartoon Treatment4 When Mistresses Become Media Starlets: The Ascension of the Political Sex-Scandal Celebrity5 Political Wives, Scandal, and the Double Bind: Press Coverage through a Gendered Lens6 Have I Got a Story for You: State Lawmakers Confront Scandal in the New York Assembly7 "How Can People Be So Dumb and Still Be in Politics?" Public Response to Prominent Scandals8 In Sickness and Scandal: Married Couples Navigate Scandal in the News9 Concluding Thoughts: Scandal and Gender in the 21st CenturyAppendix A: Scandal-Defining Variables for Scandal CompilationAppendix B: Guiding Questions for Textual Analysis of Printed TextAppendix C: Interview Protocol for Married CouplesNotesIndex

Mandell offers a painstakingly researched, revealing, and amusing exploration of sex scandals in U.S. politics. . . . This makes for a highly detailed and comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of sex scandals, as well of the underlying realities of power relations among men and women in politics. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

Hinda Mandell is assistant professor in the School of Communication at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.

• Series ForewordAcknowledgments1 Political Sex Scandals: How and Why Gender Matters2 A Brief History of Political Sex Scandals3 What a Joke: Philandering Politicians Get the Cartoon Treatment4 When Mistresses Become Media Starlets: The Ascension of the Political Sex-Scandal Celebrity5 Political Wives, Scandal, and the Double Bind: Press Coverage through a Gendered Lens6 Have I Got a Story for You: State Lawmakers Confront Scandal in the New York Assembly7 "How Can People Be So Dumb and Still Be in Politics?" Public Response to Prominent Scandals8 In Sickness and Scandal: Married Couples Navigate Scandal in the News9 Concluding Thoughts: Scandal and Gender in the 21st CenturyAppendix A: Scandal-Defining Variables for Scandal CompilationAppendix B: Guiding Questions for Textual Analysis of Printed TextAppendix C: Interview Protocol for Married CouplesNotesIndex

Mandell offers a painstakingly researched, revealing, and amusing exploration of sex scandals in U.S. politics. . . . This makes for a highly detailed and comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of sex scandals, as well of the underlying realities of power relations among men and women in politics. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

Hinda Mandell is assistant professor in the School of Communication at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.

• Series ForewordAcknowledgments1 Political Sex Scandals: How and Why Gender Matters2 A Brief History of Political Sex Scandals3 What a Joke: Philandering Politicians Get the Cartoon Treatment4 When Mistresses Become Media Starlets: The Ascension of the Political Sex-Scandal Celebrity5 Political Wives, Scandal, and the Double Bind: Press Coverage through a Gendered Lens6 Have I Got a Story for You: State Lawmakers Confront Scandal in the New York Assembly7 "How Can People Be So Dumb and Still Be in Politics?" Public Response to Prominent Scandals8 In Sickness and Scandal: Married Couples Navigate Scandal in the News9 Concluding Thoughts: Scandal and Gender in the 21st CenturyAppendix A: Scandal-Defining Variables for Scandal CompilationAppendix B: Guiding Questions for Textual Analysis of Printed TextAppendix C: Interview Protocol for Married CouplesNotesIndex

Mandell offers a painstakingly researched, revealing, and amusing exploration of sex scandals in U.S. politics. . . . This makes for a highly detailed and comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of sex scandals, as well of the underlying realities of power relations among men and women in politics. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.