Privacy and the Politics of Intimate Life / / Patricia Boling.

Patricia Boling investigates the implications of privacy for feminist theory and legal philosophy, examining issues rooted in intimate life which have broad public impact. She draws on Hannah Arendt's work and ordinary language analysis to identify confusions in the way we think about public an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1996
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • PART I: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS
  • Chapter One. Why the Personal Is Not Always Political
  • Chapter Two. Privation and Privilege
  • Chapter Three. Arendt on Political Approaches to Intimate-Life Issues
  • PART II: CONTEMPORARY DOMAINS OF THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE TENSION
  • Chapter Four. Problems with the Right to Privacy
  • Chapter Five. The Democratic Potential of Mothering
  • Chapter Six. "The Personal Is Political": The Closet, Identity Politics, and Outing
  • Conclusion: Privacy and Democratic Citizenship
  • Notes
  • Index