{"product_id":"strangers-intimates-the-rise-and-fall-of-private-life","title":"Strangers \u0026 Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eA brilliantly readable history of privacy which argues that a private life is a precious and sustaining resource that must be defended.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Two decades into the twenty-first century, the boundary between public and private life has dissolved. In her groundbreaking new book, Tiffany Jenkins reveals that this dismantling began long before the Internet and Big Tech made incursions into our private worlds. Describing the battles fought to achieve a private life in the West, \u003ci\u003eStrangers and Intimates\u003c\/i\u003e shows why, following decades in which it has been relinquished and ransacked, it is now in mortal danger.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At its heart are dramatic and moving stories: from the emergence of private sanctuaries following the turbulence of the Reformation and the first modern privacy panic in 1844, when the British government opened private letters sent to the exiled Italian republican Giuseppe Mazzini, to the struggles of feminists who declared that 'the personal is political' and the 'privacy paradox' of Harry and Meghan, who bare all while demanding their privacy be respected.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With illustrations throughout, \u003ci\u003eStrangers and Intimates\u003c\/i\u003e shows that a private life, essential for the wellbeing of individuals and society, is threatened by a three-headed monster: state and corporate intrusion, a culture of authenticity that encourages the self-invasion of privacy, and a suspicion of its value as privacy becomes a key battleground in the 'culture wars.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Private life is a recent, hard-won achievement. And if we're not careful, Jenkins warns, it will also be a temporary one.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Strangers \u0026 Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life","offer_id":45402898858181,"sku":null,"price":64.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-5290-3416-5.jpg?v=1764184288","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/strangers-intimates-the-rise-and-fall-of-private-life","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}