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The queen of America goes to Washington city : essays on sex and citizenship

Focuses on the need to revitalise public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, this title addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over that of public life borne in the right-wing agenda of the Reagan revolution.
Print Book, English, ©1997
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, ©1997
viii, 308 p. : il. ; 24 cm.
9780822319245, 0822319241
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Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: The Intimate Public Sphere 11 The Theory of Infantile Citizenship 252 Live Sex Acts (Parental Advisory: Explicit Material) 553 America, "Fat," the Fetus 834 Queer Nationality (written with Elizabeth Freeman) 1455 The Face of America and the State of Emergency 1756 The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Notes on Diva Citizenship 2217 Outtakes from the Citizenship Museum 247Notes 261Bibliography 289Index 303