Private Affairs

Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations

By: Phillip Brian Harper

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Hardcover | 1 July 1999

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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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Full of valuable new insights, Private Affairs is a necessary addition to contemporary debates about citizenship and identity. Harper challenges our tendency to see racial identity as public and sexuality as private. Instead he argues that in both cases the public demands of civic duty collide with private knowledges, and that each is necessary to realize the other.--Cindy Patton, author of Inventing AIDS

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Published: 1st July 1999

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Preface	p. ix
Private Affairs: Race, Sex, Property, and Persons	p. 1
"The Subversive Edge": Paris Is Burning, Social Critique, and the Limits of Subjective Agency	p. 33
Playing in the Dark: Privacy, Public Sex, and the Erotics of the Cinema Venue	p. 60
Gay Male Identities, Personal Privacy, and Relations of Public Exchange: Notes on Directions for Queer Critique	p. 89
"Take Me Home": Location, Identity, Transnational Exchange	p. 125
Afterword	p. 155
Bibliography	p. 159
Index	p. 169
About the Author	p. 189
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