LEADER 04818oam 22007454 450 001 9910790912003321 005 20140421013022.0 010 $a0-8223-9863-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822398639 035 $a(CKB)2550000001280285 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10867872 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001196055 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12432439 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001196055 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11162888 035 $a(PQKB)10839935 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3007807 035 $a877132946 035 $a(OCoLC)1146001168 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse80974 035 $a(DE-B1597)553856 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822398639 035 $a(OCoLC)1229160876 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001280285 100 $a20140418d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe queen of America goes to Washington city $eessays on sex and citizenship /$fLauren Berlant 210 1$aDurham, NC :$cDuke University Press,$d[1997] 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 225 1 $aSeries Q 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8223-1924-1 311 $a0-8223-1931-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [289]-302) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : The intimate public sphere -- The theory of infantile citizenship -- Live sex acts (parental advisory: explicit material) -- America, "fat," the fetus -- Queer nationality (written with Elizabeth Freeman) -- The face of America and the state of emergency -- The face of America goes to Washington city : notes on diva citizenship -- Outtakes from the citizenship museum. 330 $aIn 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.Drawing on literature, the law, and popular media, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City is a stunning and major statement about the nation and its citizens in an age of mass mediation. As it opens a critical space for new theory of agency, its narratives and gallery of images will challenge readers to rethink what it means to be American and to seek salvation in its promise. 410 0$aSeries Q. 517 3 $aEssays on sex and citizenship 606 $aPolitical participation$zUnited States 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States 606 $aConservatism$zUnited States 606 $aCitizenship$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aIntimacy (Psychology)$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States 606 $aSex customs$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States 606 $aSocial values$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States 615 0$aPolitical participation 615 0$aPolitical culture 615 0$aConservatism 615 0$aCitizenship$xSocial aspects 615 0$aIntimacy (Psychology)$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aSex customs$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aSocial values$xPolitical aspects 676 $a323/.042/0973 700 $aBerlant$b Lauren Gail$f1957-$01023120 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 801 2$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790912003321 996 $aThe queen of America goes to Washington city$93748752 997 $aUNINA