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Guarding life's dark secrets : legal and social controls over reputation, propriety, and privacy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Friedman, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Meir), 1930-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Privacy, Right of > United States > History.
Libel and slander > United States > History.
Sex and law > United States > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • The general argument
  • Status and mobility in the nineteenth century
  • Sticks and stones : the law of defamation
  • The Victorian compromise : slippage and control in the moral laws
  • The anatomy of blackmail
  • Good women, bad women : seduction, breach of promise, and related matters
  • Censorship : its rise and fall
  • Into the Twentieth Century
  • Privacy and reputation in the late Twentieth Century
  • Defamation in contemporary times
  • A summing up--and a cautious look at the future.