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• catalog abstract "In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalize public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, she addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over that of public life borne in the right-wing agenda of the Reagan revolution. By beaming light onto the idealized images and narratives about sex and citizenship that now dominate the U.S. public sphere, Berlant argues that the political public sphere has become an intimate public sphere. She asks why the contemporary ideal of citizenship is measured by personal and private acts and values rather than civic acts, and the ideal citizen has become one who, paradoxically, cannot yet act as a citizen -- epitomized by the American child and the American fetus. As Berlant traces the guiding images of U.S. citizenship through the process of privatization, she discusses the ideas of intimacy that have come to define national culture. From the fantasy of the American dream to the lessons of Forrest Gump, Lisa Simpson to Queer Nation, the reactionary culture of imperilled privilege to the testimony of Anita Hill, Berlant charts the landscape of American politics and culture. She examines the consequences of a shrinking and privatized concept of citizenship on increasing class, racial, sexual, and gender animosity and explores the contradictions of a conservative politics that maintains the sacredness of privacy, the virtue of the free market, and the immorality of state overregulation -- except when it comes to issues of intimacy. -- Publisher description.".
• catalog alternative "Essays on sex and citizenship".
• catalog contributor b10261112.
• catalog created "c1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "c1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
• catalog description "In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalize public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, she addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over that of public life borne in the right-wing agenda of the Reagan revolution. By beaming light onto the idealized images and narratives about sex and citizenship that now dominate the U.S. public sphere, Berlant argues that the political public sphere has become an intimate public sphere. She asks why the contemporary ideal of citizenship is measured by personal and private acts and values rather than civic acts, and the ideal citizen has become one who, paradoxically, cannot yet act as a citizen -- epitomized by the American child and the American fetus. As Berlant traces the guiding images of U.S. citizenship through the process of privatization, she discusses the ideas of intimacy that have come to define national culture. From the fantasy of the American dream to the lessons of Forrest Gump, Lisa Simpson to Queer Nation, the reactionary culture of imperilled privilege to the testimony of Anita Hill, Berlant charts the landscape of American politics and culture. She examines the consequences of a shrinking and privatized concept of citizenship on increasing class, racial, sexual, and gender animosity and explores the contradictions of a conservative politics that maintains the sacredness of privacy, the virtue of the free market, and the immorality of state overregulation -- except when it comes to issues of intimacy. -- Publisher description.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-302) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: the intimate public sphere -- Theory of infantile citizenship -- Live sex acts (parental advisory: explicit material) -- America, "fat," the fetus -- Queer nationality (written with Elizabeth Freeman) -- Face of America and the state of emergency -- Queen of America goes to Washington City: notes on diva citizenship -- Outtakes from the citizenship museum.".
• catalog extent "viii, 308 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Queen of America goes to Washington city.".
• catalog identifier "0822319241 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0822319314 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Queen of America goes to Washington city.".
• catalog isPartOf "Series Q".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "c1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Durham, NC : Duke University Press,".
• catalog relation "Queen of America goes to Washington city.".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "323/.042/0973 21".
• catalog subject "Citizenship Social aspects United States.".
• catalog subject "Conservatism United States.".
• catalog subject "Intimacy (Psychology) Political aspects United States.".
• catalog subject "JK1764 .B47 1997".
• catalog subject "Political culture United States.".
• catalog subject "Political participation United States.".
• catalog subject "Sex customs Political aspects United States.".
• catalog subject "Social values Political aspects United States.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: the intimate public sphere -- Theory of infantile citizenship -- Live sex acts (parental advisory: explicit material) -- America, "fat," the fetus -- Queer nationality (written with Elizabeth Freeman) -- Face of America and the state of emergency -- Queen of America goes to Washington City: notes on diva citizenship -- Outtakes from the citizenship museum.".
• catalog title "Essays on sex and citizenship".
• catalog title "The queen of America goes to Washington city : essays on sex and citizenship / Lauren Berlant.".
• catalog type "Essays. lcgft".
• catalog type "text".