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Guarding Life's Dark Secrets: Legal and Social Controls over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy
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by Lawrence Friedman
Sales Rank: 414690
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List Price: $29.95
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 360 pages
Published by: Stanford University Press November 9, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0804757399
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0804757393
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Product Review
"This is a wise, learned, and memorable text by one of the leading historians in America." —James Whitman, Yale Law School
"As always, Friedman's wonderful eye for historical detail and his deep and wide research provide the reader an engaging and highly readable narrative The manuscript is a characteristically great piece of work by one of the very best practitioners of legal history." —John Fabian Witt, Columbia Law School
"This is a wonderful history—brilliant, deeply researched and insightful—of the rise and fall of the 'Victorian Compromise.' The greatest living historian of American law has written one of his best and most enjoyable books.” —Robert W. Gordon,Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History, Yale University
Product Description
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.
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