Walled Garden

Lawrence M. Friedman is the Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He is the author of more than forty books and is the most-cited legal historian in the United States.Joanna L. Grossman is the Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. She is the author of nine books, including Nine to Five: How Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Continue to Define the American Workplace.

• Introduction Part I: Mandatory PrivacyChapter 1: The Tiger’s Cage Chapter 2: Aesthetics and the BodyChapter 3: Speak No Evil, See No Evil: Forbidden Words and Speech Chapter 4: The Privilege of Silence Part II: Elective PrivacyChapter 5: I Want to Be Alone: Privacy and ChoiceChapter 6: They Led Two Lives Chapter 7: In the Closet Chapter 8: The Eyes that Never Sleep: Surveillance and SocietyPart III: The Flight from PrivacyChapter 9: Public and Private: Celebrities and the Rest of UsChapter 10: Privacy in the Modern Age

In this book, Friedman and Grossman sketch the historical development of the concept of privacy and the issues now surrounding it. The premise of this book is that privacy is a social construct—one that is relatively recent and would have been incomprehensible in earlier societies…. All in all, this book sheds light on a part of liberal societies that is both hotly contested and taken for granted.Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.