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Today we'll be speaking with guest expert Dr. Suzanne Leonard, professor of English

and director of the graduate program in Gender and Cultural Studies at Simmons

University. She's also the author of Wife Incorporated, the

business of marriage in the 21st century. Let's hear what she has to say about

the Bill Clinton Monica Lewinsky scandal. So Suzanne, thank you so much for joining us today.

Oh, thank you so much for having me.

Now, can you start off by giving our listeners a little background on your field of study.

Sure, I am an English professor at Simmons University in Boston, but I actually

specialize in a discipline called Feminist Media Studies, which really

aims to look at popular culture through a feminist lens.

So I study everything from popular literature

to television, film, to new media, to women's magazines,

you know, anything that sort of exists in what we might call the kind of like female

media sphere is sort of within my valley wick.

And so your latest book, Wife Incorporated the Business of Marriage in the 21st century.

That kind of focuses more on the business of marriage I guess. It does it does and that book

really looks at representations of wifdom across across American popular

culture so I look at everything from across American popular culture.

So I look at everything from online dating and trends in online dating to reality television shows

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