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Private Affairs : Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations /

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...

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Autor principal: Harper, Phillip Brian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource: illustrations.
ISBN:9780814738924