Why Privacy Isn't Everything - Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability

Accountability protects public health and safety, facilitates law enforcement, and enhances national security, but it is much more than a bureaucratic concern for corporations, public administrators, and the criminal justice system. In Why Privacy Isn't Everything, Anita L. Allen provides a highly original treatment of neglected issues affecting the intimacies of everyday life, and freshly examines how a preeminent liberal society accommodates the competing demands of vital privacy and vital accountability for personal matters. Thus, "None of your business!" is at times the wrong thing to say, as much of what appears to be self-regarding conduct has implications for others that should have some bearing on how a person chooses to act.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Accountability in Theory and Practice Chapter 3 Accountability to Family and Race Chapter 4 Accountability for Health Chapter 5 Accountability for Sex

About the author

Anita L. Allen is professor of law and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.

Summary

"None of your business!" People seeking to keep their private lives from scrutiny often fall back on these words. This work shows that we are every bit as accountable for our private actions as for our public deeds. It defends accountability for private life, stating that it protects and dignifies.

Product details

• Authors: Anita L Allen, Anita L. Allen, Allen Anita L.
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2003
• EAN: 9780742514089
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-1408-9
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 422 g
• Series: Feminist Constructions; Feminist Constructions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, Feminism & feminist theory, Ethics and moral philosophy, Feminism and feminist theory