Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations (Sexual Cultures)

by Phillip Brian Harper

In Private Affairs, Phillip Brian Harper explores the social and cultural significance of the private, proposing that, far from a universal right, privacy is limited by one's racial-and sexual-minority status. Ranging across cinema, literature, sculpture, and lived encounters-from Rodin's The Kiss to Jenny Livingston's Paris is Burning-Private Affairs demonstrates how the very concept of privacy creates personal and sociopolitical hierarchies in contemporary America.

• ISBN10: 0814738923
• ISBN13: 9780814738924
• Publish Date: 1 June 1999
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: New York University Press
• Format: eBook
• Language: English