Private Affairs

Download or read book Private Affairs written by Phillip Brian Harper and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.