In this sophisticated and entertaining book, Fedwa Malti-Douglas shows how, in the 1990s, American legal and political conflicts were expressed through sex, just as sexual insecurities were expressed through law and politics. (Lee Fontanella, 2009 Andrew Carnegie Centenary Professor, Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities) Fedwa Malti-Douglas explores how, under Clinton and Bush, the bedroom underwrote the cloakroom (and vice versa) in our collective imagination. (Judith Roof, Professor of English, Michigan State University, Author of 'The Poetics of DNA') sakriti opis