Private Affairs

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.