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1	Sex is still politics : an analysis of race, gender performance, and political leaning in the Thomas-Hill and Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandals / Hottel, Meghan Elizabeth. January 2010 (has links) Thesis (Honors)--College of William and Mary, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-73). Also available online.
2	Image Restoration in the Apologetic in the Apologetic Rhetoric of Professional Athletes: A Case Study of Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Phelps Unknown Date (has links) This purpose of this study is to investigate the apologetic rhetoric of professional athletes’ off-field scandals. The three case studies used were Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Phelps. A genre analysis was conducted to determine the success or failure of the speech by examining the image repair strategies used during the rhetoric. Further research revealed that the audiences’ perception plays a large role in determining if the rhetoric was successful or not. Two factors that aid the audience are the medium in which the public address was given, and the time it took to deliver the speech once the off-field scandal took place. The findings determined that Tiger Woods apologia was not successful, while Kobe Bryant’s was successful. The rhetoric of Michael Phelps’ speech lacked in delivery and strategies chosen. To have a successful apologia, one should have a clear use of strategies as well as a timely public address. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection Woods, Tiger. Bryant, Kobe--1978- Phelps, Michael--1985- Sex scandals--United States. Verbal self-defense. Rhetorical criticism. Discourse analysis. Crisis management. Sports--Public relations.
3	‘Good Soldiers’, ‘Bad Apples’ and the ‘Boys’ Club’: Media Representations of Military Sex Scandals and Militarized Masculinities Bickerton, Ashley Jennifer January 2015 (has links) This thesis examines news representations of Canadian, American and Australian military personnel involved in military 'sex scandals'. I explore what the representations of military personnel involved in well-publicized sex scandals reveal about scripts of soldiering and militarized masculinities. Despite a history of systemic violence in the military, I ask how and why the systemic nature of militarized masculinities are able to remain invisible, driving representations to focus on the ‘bad’ behaviour of individuals? By engaging with feminist scholarship in International Relations, I present the longstanding culture of misogyny, racism, homophobia and ableism in the Canadian, American and Australian militaries, focusing on the ways in which militarized masculinities are guided by these violent structures, and fundamental to the military's creation of soldiers. My dissertation uses the tools of critical discourse analysis to unpack the ways blame is individualised in cases of sexual and racist violence involving military personnel, while the military’s ableism, rape culture and imperial militarized masculinities are commonly naturalized or celebrated without regard for how they are fundamentally violent. My thesis presents an intersectional feminist project that intervenes in emerging questions in the field of transnational disability studies, tracing how militarism, hegemonic militarized masculinities and imperial soldiering (re)produce categories of ability and disability. Militarization Masculinities Militarized masculinities Masculinity Ableism Intersectionality Critical discourse analysis Representations Race Rape culture Sexual violence Misogony Gender Imperial violence Fetish trophies Trophies International relations Feminisms Military culture Transnational disability studies Colonel Williams Abu Ghraib ADFA Australia Canada United States News Whiteness Monstrosity Colonization Sex scandals Discourse Skype scandal Sexuality Class

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