Gendered Politics in the Modern South: The Susan Smith Case and the Rise of a New Sexism (Making the Modern South)
Автор:Keira V. Williams Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 272 ISBN: 0807147680 In the fall of 1994 Susan Smith, a young mother from Union, South Carolina, reported that an African American male carjacker had kidnapped her two children. The news sparked a multi-state investigation and evoked nationwide sympathy. Nine days later, she confessed to drowning the boys in a nearby lake, and that sympathy quickly turned to outrage. Smith became the topic of thousands of articles, news segments, and media broadcasts--overshadowing the coverage of midterm elections and the O. J. Simpson trial. The notoriety of her case was more than tabloid fare, however; her story tapped into a cultural debate about gender and politics at a crucial moment in American history.In Gendered Politics in the Modern South Keira V. Williams uses the Susan Smith case to analyze the ''new sexism'' found in the agenda of the budding neo-conservatism movement of the 1990s. She notes that in the weeks after Smith's confession, soon-to-be Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich made statements linking...
