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- catalog abstract "In this book, Janna Malamud Smith traces a modern history of privacy, revealing how our inner and outer lives are nurtured by this fragile virtue. Today we enjoy more privacy than ever before, yet the encroachment of the media, computer data gathering, and electronic surveillance in our lives undermines our sense that we have any privacy at all. Smith argues that having a say in when and how we watch one another is key to ongoing debates about freedom. Our ideal of individual liberty - a person who is free to make choices about her own life - is not possible without the protection of privacy. Yet privacy can be used for the wrong reasons. The same condition that sustains intimacy, creativity, and freedom can also be invoked as an abusive kind of secrecy. To explore this paradox Smith looks at privacy refracted through various prisms: the bedroom, the psychiatrist's couch, the biographer's quest for information, the presidency and presidential families, the news media, women and their bodies. We see the supple quality of privacy as we look at its role in everyday life; we see how essential it is to our capacity to love and create and think - to our humanity.".
- catalog contributor b10305776.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "In this book, Janna Malamud Smith traces a modern history of privacy, revealing how our inner and outer lives are nurtured by this fragile virtue. Today we enjoy more privacy than ever before, yet the encroachment of the media, computer data gathering, and electronic surveillance in our lives undermines our sense that we have any privacy at all. Smith argues that having a say in when and how we watch one another is key to ongoing debates about freedom. Our ideal of individual liberty - a person who is free to make choices about her own life - is not possible without the protection of privacy.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-268) and index.".
- catalog description "My daughter, my sister -- Privacy and private states -- Stevenson at the inn -- Reverend Beecher and the press -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Freud -- Shame, sex, and privacy -- Burnt letters, biography, and privacy -- Clinton's nap and presidential privacy -- Harriet Jacobs's room : women and privacy.".
- catalog description "Yet privacy can be used for the wrong reasons. The same condition that sustains intimacy, creativity, and freedom can also be invoked as an abusive kind of secrecy. To explore this paradox Smith looks at privacy refracted through various prisms: the bedroom, the psychiatrist's couch, the biographer's quest for information, the presidency and presidential families, the news media, women and their bodies. We see the supple quality of privacy as we look at its role in everyday life; we see how essential it is to our capacity to love and create and think - to our humanity.".
- catalog extent "ix, 278 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Private matters.".
- catalog identifier "0201409739".
- catalog isFormatOf "Private matters.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub.,".
- catalog relation "Private matters.".
- catalog subject "155.9/2 21".
- catalog subject "BF637.P74 S55 1997".
- catalog subject "Privacy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "My daughter, my sister -- Privacy and private states -- Stevenson at the inn -- Reverend Beecher and the press -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Freud -- Shame, sex, and privacy -- Burnt letters, biography, and privacy -- Clinton's nap and presidential privacy -- Harriet Jacobs's room : women and privacy.".
- catalog title "Private matters : in defense of the personal life / Janna Malamud Smith.".
- catalog type "text".