The Queen of America Goes to Washington City : Essays on Sex and Citizenship /
In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalize public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, she addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over th...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
1997.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the intimate public sphere
- 1. The theory of infantile citizenship
- 2. Live sex acts (parental advisory: explicit material)
- 3. America, "fat," the fetus
- 4. Queer nationality (written with Elizabeth Freeman)
- 5. The face of America and the state of emergency
- 6. The face of America goes to Washington city : notes on diva citizenship
- 7. Outtakes from the citizenship museum.