Strangers and Intimates
Picador (Verlag)
978-1-5290-3417-2 (ISBN)
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What does it mean to have a private life?
From ancient times to our digital present, Strangers and Intimates traces the dramatic emergence of private life, uncovering how it became a protected domain, cherished as a space for intimacy, self-discovery and freedom. In this sweeping history, Tiffany Jenkins, an acclaimed cultural historian, 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, and from the feminists of the 1970s who declared that ‘the personal is political’ to the boundary-blurring demands of our digital age.
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, are we in danger of losing a part of ourselves? Jenkins reveals how privacy shaped the modern world and why it remains crucial for our personal and collective freedom – and why this freedom is now in mortal danger.
Today, as we share more than ever before and digital surveillance watches our every move, Jenkins asks a timely question: can private life survive the demands of the twenty-first century?
Dr Tiffany Jenkins is an Anglo-American writer, academic and broadcaster. She is the author of the acclaimed Keeping Their Marbles: How Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums and Why They Should Stay There. She is an honorary fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Edinburgh, and a former visiting fellow in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics. Tiffany appears regularly on BBC Radio 4, including Saturday Review and Front Row. She wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 series ‘A History of Secrecy’ and, most recently, ‘Contracts of Silence’, about the rise of non-disclosure agreements. She is a frequent commentator for The Guardian, The Observer, the Financial Times, The Scotsman and The Spectator. She divides her time between London and Edinburgh.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.5.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Sicherheit / Firewall | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5290-3417-5 / 1529034175 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5290-3417-2 / 9781529034172 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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