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 is Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature at New York University, where he teaches in the Departments of Social and Cultural Analysis and of English. He is the author of the books Private Affairs (NYU Press, 1999), Are We Not Men? and Framing the Margins.

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