Strangers and intimates : the rise and fall of private life.

The fascinating story of how private life was won, and how it might just as easily be lost ... Private life is in mortal danger, following decades in which it has been relinquished and ransacked. It is threatened by a three-headed monster: state and corporate surveillance, a confessional, 'tell-all' culture that makes people complicit in the invasion of their own privacy, and the intense politicization of private life. Tiffany Jenkins's groundbre...