Guarding Life's Dark Secrets : Legal and Social Controls over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy / Lawrence M. Friedman.
2022
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Title
Guarding Life's Dark Secrets : Legal and Social Controls over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy / Lawrence M. Friedman.
Imprint
Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2007
Description
1 online resource (360 p.)
Formatted Contents Note
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 The General Argument
2 Status and Mobility in the Nineteenth Century
3 Sticks and Stones: The Law of Defamation
4 The Victorian Compromise: Slippage and Control in the Moral Laws
5 The Anatomy of Blackmail
6 Good Women, Bad Women: Seduction, Breach of Promise, and Related Matters
7 Censorship: Its Rise and Fall
8 Into the Twentieth Century
9 Privacy and Reputation in the Late Twentieth Century
10 Defamation in Contemporary Times
11 A Summing Up-And a Cautious Look at the Future
Notes
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 The General Argument
2 Status and Mobility in the Nineteenth Century
3 Sticks and Stones: The Law of Defamation
4 The Victorian Compromise: Slippage and Control in the Moral Laws
5 The Anatomy of Blackmail
6 Good Women, Bad Women: Seduction, Breach of Promise, and Related Matters
7 Censorship: Its Rise and Fall
8 Into the Twentieth Century
9 Privacy and Reputation in the Late Twentieth Century
10 Defamation in Contemporary Times
11 A Summing Up-And a Cautious Look at the Future
Notes
Index
Summary
Guarding Life's Dark Secrets tells the story of an intriguing aspect of the social and legal culture in the United States, the construction and destruction of a network of doctrines designed to protect reputation. The strict and unbending rules of decency and propriety of the nineteenth century, especially concerning sexual behavior, paradoxically provided ways to protect and shield respectable men and women who deviated from the official norms. This "Victorian compromise," which created an important zone of privacy, first came under attack from moralists for its tolerance of sin. During the second half of the twentieth century, the old structure was largely dismantled by an increasingly permissive society. Rich with anecdotes, Friedman's account draws us into the present. The Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution to include a right of privacy, which has given ordinary people increased freedom, especially in matters of sex, reproduction, and choice of intimate partners. The elite, however, no longer have the freedom they once had to violate decency rules with impunity. Although public figures may have lost some of their privacy rights, ordinary people have gained more privacy, greater leeway, and broader choices. These gains, however, are now under threat as technology transforms the modern world into a world of surveillance.
Language Note
In English.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)
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www
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restricted access (http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec) online access with authorization
Alternate Title
DeGruyter online
Language
English
ISBN
9780804763219
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