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The naughty nineties : the triumph of the American libido
—Friend, David, 1955- author.
2017

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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.
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