Name: Guarding Life's Dark Secrets: Legal and Social Controls Over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy
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Author: Lawrence M. Friedman; Lawrence Freedman
ISBN: 9780804757393

portada Guarding Life's Dark Secrets: Legal and Social Controls Over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lawrence Freedman

Lawrence M. Friedman

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

348

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.1 x 16.2 x 2.7 cm

Weight

0.62 kg.

ISBN

0804757399

ISBN13

9780804757393

Edition No.

Synopsis "Guarding Life's Dark Secrets: Legal and Social Controls Over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy"

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.

Lawrence Freedman

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Lawrence Freedman ha sido profesor de Estudios Bélicos en el King’s College de Londres desde 1982, y vicerrector desde 2003. Desde 2009 ha trabajado en la Investigación Oficial del Reino Unido sobre la Guerra de Irak. Es autor de numerosos trabajos sobre estrategia nuclear y sobre la guerra fría, y es comentarista habitual de temas relacionados con la seguridad.

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