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Secrets Sex and Spectacle: The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States [Buy it!] | Mark D. West | USD 70.89 (Thu Jun 6 09:53:16 2024) | Biblio | The Saint Bookstore | New. <p>A leader of a global superpower is betrayed by his mistress, who makes public the sordid details of their secret affair. His wife stands by as he denies the charges. Debates over definitions of moral leadership ensue. Sound familiar? If you guessed Clinton and Lewinsky, try again. This incident involved former Japanese prime minister Sosuke Uno and a geisha. </p><p>In <i>Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle,</i> Mark D. West organizes the seemingly random worlds of Japanese and American scandalâfrom corporate fraud to baseball cheaters, political corruption to celebrity sexcapadesâto explore well-ingrained similarities and contrasts in law and society. In Japan and the United States, legal and organizational rules tell us what kind of behavior is considered scandalous. When Japanese and American scandal stories differ, those rulesârules that define whatâs public and whatâs private, rules that protect injuries to dignity and honor, and rules about sex, to name a fewâoften help explain the differences. In the cases of Clinton and Uno, the rules help explain why the media didnât cover Unoâs affair, why Unoâs wife apologized on her husbandâs behalf, and why Unoâand not Clintonâresigned. </p><p><i>Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle</i> offers a novel approach to viewing the phenomenon of scandalâone that will be applauded by anyone who has obsessed over (or ridiculed) these public episodes.</p> ISBN 0226894088 9780226894089 [GB] |