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Modern Privacy

Shifting Boundaries, New Forms

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Editors:
  1. Harry Blatterer

    1. Macquarie University, Australia

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  2. Pauline Johnson

    1. Macquarie University, Australia

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  3. Maria R. Markus

    1. University of New South Wales, Australia

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Harry Blatterer, Pauline Johnson, Maria R. Markus
    Pages 1-6

  3. Privacy, Secrecy, Intimacy, Human Bonds, Utopia—and Other Collateral Casualties of Liquid Modernity

    • Zygmunt Bauman
    Pages 7-22

  4. When Privacy Goes Public: New Media and the Transformation of the Culture of Confession

    • Günter Burkart
    Pages 23-38

  5. Images of Intimacy in Feminist Discussions over Private/Public Boundaries

    • Pauline Johnson
    Pages 39-58

  6. Privacy and Law

    • Arthur Glass
    Pages 59-72

  7. Social Networking, Privacy, and the Pursuit of Visibility

    • Harry Blatterer
    Pages 73-87

  8. Can Solitude be Recaptured for the Sake of Intimacy?

    • Maria R. Markus
    Pages 88-101

  9. The Erotic Imaginary, Autonomy, and Modernity

    • John Rundell
    Pages 102-116

  10. What’s Wrong with Therapy Culture?

    • Pauline Johnson
    Pages 117-132

  11. Privacy and Work

    • Norbert Ebert
    Pages 133-148

  12. Narcissism and the Emergence of the Network Society

    • Eli Zaretsky
    Pages 149-166

  13. Conclusion: Futures of Modern Privacy

    • Harry Blatterer, Pauline Johnson, Maria R. Markus
    Pages 167-174

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 175-180
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Modern Privacies addresses emergent transformations of privacy in western societies from a multidisciplinary and international perspective. It examines social and cultural trends in new media, feminism, law, work and intimacy which indicate that our perceptions, evaluations and enactments of privacy in constant flux.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Macquarie University, Australia

    Harry Blatterer, Pauline Johnson

  • University of New South Wales, Australia

    Maria R. Markus

About the editors

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds, UK and Warsaw, Poland GÜNTER BURKART is Professor of Sociology at the Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg, Germany NORBERT EBERT is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Macquarie University, Australia ARTHUR GLASS is Associate Professor in Law, University of New South Wales, Australia JOHN RUNDELL is Associate Professor in the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Enquiry, Melbourne University, Australia ELI ZARETSKY is Professor of History at The New School for Social Research, USA

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