The naughty nineties : the triumph of the American libido
2017
Book
Discusses how the rise of the Internet, reality television, and tabloid culture transformed the boundaries of sexuality in the 1990s, providing first-hand accounts by such individuals as Monica Lewinsky, Joan Rivers, and Jesse Jackson.
Item Details
ISBN: 9780446556293
Edition: First edition.
Description: vi, 631 pages ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 563-609) and index.
Contents:
- A Wednesday in November
- Down the rabbit hole
- The night we met the Clintons
- The Bubba boomer
- On the third wave
- Empowerment icons
- The crying game
- A vagina travelogue
- The glory of O
- Culture warriors, man your battle stations
- Wanderlust
- The wild blue web
- Don't ask, don't tell
- The age of the long lie
- The oversexed, underexamined, media-soaked yadda yadda of everyday life
- Botox, booties, and bods
- the bust boom
- Celebrity sin
- Four moments that changed the narrative
- The Boomsie twins
- Objects in mirror are tinier than they appear
- Shadows on the wall of the man cave
- Dudes and subdudes
- Porn goes pop
- Chez Fleiss
- Hard currency
- The lowest-hanging fruit
- Culture wars, part II
- The hardener's tale
- Homo erectus
- The internet and the intern
- Afterword: The Trumpen Show.
LCCN: 2016040005
Control Number: 2630938
Publisher: New York : Twelve, 2017.Subjects: