Private Affairs : Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations / Phillip Brian Harper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harper, Phillip Brian, author.

Series:

Sexual cultures.

Sexual cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privacy, Right of.

Privacy.

Minorities--Civil rights.

Interpersonal relations and culture.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Private Affairs: Race, Sex, Property, and Persons

2. "The Subversive Edge": Paris Is Burning, Social Critique, and the Limits of Subjective Agency

3. Playing in the Dark: Privacy, Public Sex, and the Erotics of the Cinema Venue

4. Gay Male Identities, Personal Privacy, and Relations of Public Exchange: Notes on Directions for Queer Critique

5. "Take Me Home": Location, Identity, Transnational Exchange.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-167) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8147-3892-3

0-585-48030-3

OCLC:

53482674