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 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.