num_pages: 200
description: 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.
language: English
title: Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations
titlecomplete: Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations (Sexual Cultures, 22)
ratings_count: 7
publisher: NYU Press