Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations

by Phillip Brian Harper

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814735940
• ISBN13: 9780814735947
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"