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Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations
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Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations
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publisher
NYU Press
publication year
1999
description
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.
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Katie Arthur
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Harper, Phillip Brian