TY - BOOK AU - Harper,Phillip Brian TI - Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations T2 - Sexual Cultures SN - 9780814735930 AV - JC596 .H37 1999eb U1 - 323.44/8 22 PY - 2020///] CY - New York, NY : PB - New York University Press, KW - Interpersonal relations and culture KW - Minorities KW - Civil rights KW - Privacy, Right of KW - Privacy KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. Private Affairs --; 2. “The Subversive Edge” --; 3. Playing in the Dark --; 4. Gay Male Identities, Personal Privacy, and Relations of Public Exchange --; 5. “Take Me Home” --; Afterword --; Bibliography --; Index --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814738924.001.0001 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814738924 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814738924/original ER -