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Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life - Hardcover
£20.00
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JENKINS, TIFFANY
Product Details
ISBN: 9781529034165
Author: JENKINS, TIFFANY
Pages: 464
'Brilliantly original . . . endlessly fascinating' – Alice Loxton, author of Eighteen
'An intricate cultural history . . . thought-provoking' – The Sunday Times
'Lucid and elegant' – The Telegraph
From ancient times to our digital present, Strangers and Intimates traces the dramatic emergence of private life and argues that it is now in mortal danger.
A sweeping history
Acclaimed cultural historian Tiffany Jenkins takes readers on an epic journey:
- From the strict separations of public and private in ancient Athens
- To the moral rigidity of the Victorian home
- To the feminists of the 1970s who declared that ‘the personal is political’
- To the boundary-blurring demands of our digital age
A celebration and a warning
Strangers and Intimates is both a celebration of the private realm and a warning. As social media, surveillance, and the expectations of constant openness reshape our lives, Jenkins asks a timely and profound question: Can private life survive the demands of the twenty-first century?
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