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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Berlant, Lauren Gail, 1957-2021 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1997.
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.