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Freaks talk back : tabloid talk shows and sexual nonconformity
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ISBN: 0226280640 Year: 1998 Publisher: Chicago London University of Chicago Press

Freaks talk back : tabloid talk shows and sexual nonconformity
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ISBN: 0226280659 Year: 1998 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press,

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Claims to fame: celebrity in contemporary America
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ISBN: 0520914155 0585299765 9780520914155 9780585299761 0520083520 0520083539 9780520083523 9780520083530 9780510083530 Year: 1994 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press

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Moving from People magazine to publicists' offices to tours of stars' homes, Joshua Gamson investigates the larger-than-life terrain of American celebrity culture. In the first major academic work since the early 1940s to seriously analyze the meaning of fame in American life, Gamson begins with the often-heard criticisms that today's heroes have been replaced by pseudoheroes, that notoriety has become detached from merit. He draws on literary and sociological theory, as well as interviews with celebrity-industry workers, to untangle the paradoxical nature of an American popular culture that is both obsessively invested in glamour and fantasy yet also aware of celebrity's transparency and commercialism. Gamson examines the contemporary "dream machine" that publicists, tabloid newspapers, journalists, and TV interviewers use to create semi-fictional icons. He finds that celebrity watchers, for whom spotting celebrities becomes a spectator sport akin to watching football or fireworks, glean their own rewards in a game that turns as often on playing with inauthenticity as on identifying with stars. Gamson also looks at the "celebritization" of politics and the complex questions it poses regarding image and reality. He makes clear that to understand American public culture, we must understand that strange, ubiquitous phenomenon, celebrity.


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Modern families : stories of extraordinary journeys to kinship
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ISBN: 1479842842 9781479842841 9781479842469 147984246X 9781479869732 1479869732 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): New York University press,

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The kinds of families we see today are different than they were even a decade ago as paths to parenthood have been rejiggered by technology, activism, and law. Gamson brings us extraordinary family creation tales that illuminate this changing world of contemporary kinship. He tells a variety of unconventional family-creation tales-- adoption and assisted reproduction, gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and multi-parent families-- set against the social, legal, and economic contexts in which they were made.

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Families --- Racially mixed families. --- Gay parents. --- Human reproductive technology. --- Kinship. --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Kin recognition --- Assisted conception --- Assisted human reproduction --- Assisted human reproductive technology --- Conception --- Human assisted reproduction --- Human assisted reproductive technology --- Human reproduction --- Medical technology --- Reproductive technology --- Homosexual parents --- Parents --- Interracial families --- Mixed race families --- Mixed-racial families --- Multiracial families --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- History --- Technological innovations --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Stieffamilie --- Verwandtschaft --- Kind --- Interkulturalität --- Homosexuelles Paar --- Familie --- Families. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Popular Culture. --- Anthropology --- Cultural. --- Public Policy --- Cultural Policy. --- Racially mixed families --- Gay parents --- Human reproductive technology --- Familien --- Ehe --- Lineage --- Gleichgeschlechtliches Paar --- Gleichgeschlechtliche Lebensgemeinschaft --- Homosexualität --- Homosexuelle Lebensgemeinschaft --- Homosexuelle Partnerschaft --- Homosexuelle Paare --- Paar --- Eheähnliche Gemeinschaft --- Eingetragene Lebenspartnerschaft --- Gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe --- Transkulturalität --- Hybridität --- Cross-culturalism --- Cross-culturality --- Kulturkontakt --- Kulturübertragung --- Interkulturelle Kompetenz --- Kindheit --- Kindesalter --- Kindschaft --- Kinder --- Child --- Children --- Childhood --- Lebensalter --- Verwandter --- Verwandte --- Angehöriger --- Familienangehöriger --- Patchworkfamilie --- Families - History - 21st century --- Patchwork-Familie


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Modern families
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ISBN: 9781479842841 9781479842469 1479842842 147984246X 9781479869732 1479869732 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York

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Modern Families : Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship
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ISBN: 9781479843251 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York, N.Y. New York University Press

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Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals
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ISBN: 0822332655 0822332760 0822385384 1283064766 9786613064769 Year: 2004 Publisher: Duke University Press

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Let's entertain : life's guilty pleasures
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ISBN: 0935640665 Year: 2000 Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. Walker Art Center

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Pierson, Jack ; Gursky, Andreas ; Wearing, Gillian ; Land, Peter ; Sherman, Cindy ; Cattelan, Maurizio ; McCarthy, Paul ; Koons, Jeff ; Warhol, Andy ; Hirst, Damien ; et al.

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