Sexual Cultures Series
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Private Affairs
Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations
Phillip Brian Harper
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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| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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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