Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (446 p.)
Disciplina	324.973/0931
Altri autori (Persone)	DentonRobert E., Jr.
Collana	Lexington studies in political communication
Soggetto topico	Presidents - United States - Election - 2008 Gender identity - Political aspects - United States African Americans - Race identity - Political aspects Evangelicalism - United States Christianity and politics - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-60754-5 9786612607547 0-7391-4104-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Studies of Identity in the 2008 Presidential Campaign; Lexington Studies in Political Communication; Series Editor: Robert E. Denton, Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Studies of Identity in the 2008 Presidential Campaign; Contents; Tables; Preface; REFERENCES; Acknowledgments; 1; Identity Politics in the 2008 Presidential Campaign: An Overview; OBAMA AND RACE; GENDER AND CLINTON; GENDER AND PALIN; AGE AND MCCAIN; IMPLICATIONS; CONClUSION; REFERENCES; 2; Symbolic Womanhood and Sarah Palin: Running Against the Feminist Grain; SARAH PALIN'S SYMBOLIC WOMANHOOD POSTFEMINISM AND PATRIARCHYREFERENCES; NOTES; 3; "A More Perfect Union": Barack Obama's Failed Apologia and Successful Use of Identity Politics; THE RHETORIC OF APOLOGIA; THE REVEREND WRIGhT CONTROVERSY; "A MORE PERFECT UNION"; THE FAILURE OF APOLOGIA; THE SUCCESS OF IDENTITY POLITICS; THE NEW APOLOGIA: SUCCEEDING BY FAILING?; REFERENCES; 4; Playing the Gender Card Against a Stacked Deck: A Comparison of Senator Hillary Clinton and Governor Sarah Palin's Gender-based Apologia in the 2008 Presidential Election; APOLOGIA; POLITICS AND GENDER; PLAYING THE GENDER CARD; CONClUSION; REFERENCES; 5 Identity Politics: Gender and Race in the 2008 Democratic Presidential NominationTHE CANDIDATES, THEIR POLITICAL STANDING, AND NOMINATION STRATEGIES; CLINTON AND OBAMA: A COMMUNICATION PERSPECTIVE; THE 2008 DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION OUTCOME; MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES IN THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION VOTE; CANDIDATE TRAITS IN THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION VOTE; CONClUSIONS; REFERENCES; 6; Barack Obama and the Cosmopolitan Candidacy; COSMOPOLITANISM; OBAMA AND HIS VOTERS; THE COSMOPOLITAN PROCESS AND CONSTRUCTION; THE COSMOPOLITAN CONNECTION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; NOTES; 7 Evangelical Voters in the 2008 Republican Presidential NominationREFERENCES; 8; deceptive narratives in the 2008 Presidential Campaign; NARRATIVES; DECEPTION AND RUMOR; ATTACK TACTICS; CHARACTER THEMES; PATRIOTISM THEMES; RELIGION THEMES; POLITICAl THEMES; SOCIAL ISSUE THEMES; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 9; The Challenges and Limitations of "Identity Politics" in a Democracy; DEMOCRACY, LIBERTY AND EQUALITY; LIMITATIONS OF IDENTITY POLITICS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; NOTES; 10; Epilogue: The Rhetoric of the Destruction of American Identity and the Academy; KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES INSIDE THE SPHEREDECONSTRUCTING CHURCHILL'S CRITIQUE-ESCAPING THE SPHERE; REFERENCES; Index; About the Contributors
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