Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Your Call 090408 Sex and Politics

How will questions about sex play out in the presidential election? On the next Your Call, we'll speak with historian Dagmar Herzog, author of Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has the nation talking about her teenage daughter's pregnancy. The news has become part of the political debate. What do the responses on the left say about what they get or don't get about how gender and sexuality works politically on the right? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Dagmar Herzog is professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and author of several books, including Intimacy and Exclusion and Sex after Fascism. Her most recent book is Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics.

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1 comment:

Conor Ryan said...

Totally excellent show! Salon.com - which is usually so right-on about so many things politically - is just not getting it when it comes to Sarah Palin. I completely agree with Dagmar Herzog when she said that choosing Sarah Palin was a stroke of genius.

Sarah Palin: Be afraid. Be very afraid.

P.S. I used to miss Laura Flanders. Rose Aguilar, you more than fill her shoes. Rose, you ROCK!!