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Private affairs:

critical ventures in the culture of social relations
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NYU Press, 1999 - Social Science - 189 pages

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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Contents

The Subversive Edge
33
Playing in the Dark
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Cay Male Identities Personal Privacy and Relations
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Take Me Home
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Afterword
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Index
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About the Author
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About the author (1999)

Author of Are We Not Men? Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African-American Identity and Framing the Margins: The Social Logic of Postmodern Culture, Phillip Brian Harper is Professor of American Studies and English at New York University.

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TitlePrivate affairs: critical ventures in the culture of social relations
Sexual cultures
ContributorPhillip Brian Harper
Editionillustrated
PublisherNYU Press, 1999
ISBN0814735940, 9780814735947
Length189 pages
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Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
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