Private Affairs - Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations

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.

About the author

Phillip Brian Harper

Summary

One of a series which promotes scholarship about the experiences of sexual minorities, this book explores the social and cultural significance of the private. The author proposes that, far from a universal right, privacy is limited by one's racial - and sexual - minority status.

Product details

• Authors: Phillip Brian Harper
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1999
• EAN: 9780814735947
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-3594-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 208 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 268 g
• Series: Sexual Cultures (Paperback); Sexual Cultures; Sexual Cultures (Paperback)
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education