References

  1. For a series of "soundbites" on the history of this slogan, visit The F-Word (May, 2001)

  2. Juliet Williams, The Personal is Political: Thinking Through the Clinton/Lewinsky/Starr Affair.

  3. President Bill Clinton, Address to the American People, 8/17/98 .

  4. For a bibliography of readings on the public/private dichotomy, visit Privacy: A Multimedia History.  The Electronic Privacy Law Center also maintains a page of links and resources related to Gender and Privacy.  I have also found a useful online annotated bibliography of readings on the public/private dichotomy, but have been unable to locate the source.

  5. Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend-- Marilyn Monroe Site; Miriam Makeba Home Page.

  6. "I put myself at risk, sir", excerpt from Bill Clinton's Starr Grand Jury Testimony (8/17/98).  For a positive view of Monica Lewinsky's professional ambitions, see Katie Roiphe, Monica Lewinsky: Career Woman, The New York Times, September 15, 1998.

  7. Joel Achenbach, "Sex, Lies and Starr's Unsatisfying Report," The Washington Post (9/12/1998). 

  8. Betty Friedan, "The Feminine Mystique," quoted by Alan Wolfe, "The Mystique of Betty Friedan," The Atlantic Monthly, September, 1999.

  9. Laurence K. Grossman, "The Press and the Dress," Columbia Journalism Review (November/December, 1998); Russell Frank, "Dueling Monicas," Columbia Journalism Review (March/April, 1999).  Newsweek, "The Lewinsky Tapes" (1/24/1998); Neal Gabler, Monica Lewinsky and the Death of Public Life," Los Angeles Times (5/7/1999); Jeff Leen, "Lewinsky: Two Coasts, Two Lives, Two Images," The Washington Post (1/24/98).

  10. Carol Pateman provides a comprehensive review of these arguments in “Feminist Critiques of the Public/Private Dichotomy,”  The Disorder of Women (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989).  Also see Joan Landes, editor, Feminism, The Public and the Private (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) and Tracy. E. Higgins, "Reviving the Public/Private Dichotomy in Feminist Theorizing," Chicago-Kent Law Review, Volume 75, Number 3 (2000).

  11. Anita Allen takes a conflicting, but I must say, persuasive position on this issue in "Lying to Protect Privacy".

  12. For an extremely insightful discussion of this problem, see Richard Sherwin, When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line Between Law and Popular Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).