Owning up : privacy, property, and belonging in U.S. women's life writing / Katherine Adams.
'Owning Up' argues that from its beginning the U.S. discourse on privacy has been couched in terms of violation and dispossession, so that even as 19th century Americans came to regard privacy as a natural right, they also understood it as under threat or erasure.
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Online Access: | Click for online access |
| Summary: | 'Owning Up' argues that from its beginning the U.S. discourse on privacy has been couched in terms of violation and dispossession, so that even as 19th century Americans came to regard privacy as a natural right, they also understood it as under threat or erasure. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 264 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-255) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199714315 0199714312 9780199868360 0199868360 0195336801 9780195336801 |