Strangers and intimates : the rise and fall of private life
Jenkins, Tiffany2025
Books, Manuscripts
What does it mean to have a private life? From ancient times to our digital present, 'Strangers and Intimates' traces the dramatic emergence of private life, uncovering how it became a protected domain, cherished as a space for intimacy, self-discovery and freedom. In this book, Tiffany Jenkins, a cultural historian, takes readers on an epic journey, from the strict separations of public and private in ancient Athens to the moral rigidity of the Victorian home, and from the feminists of the 1970s who declared that 'the personal is political' to the boundary-blurring demands of our digital age.
Main title:
Strangers and intimates : the rise and fall of private life / Tiffany Jenkins.
Author:
Jenkins, Tiffany, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2025.
Collation:
464 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781529034165 (hbk)
Dewey class:
323.448
LC class:
JC596
Language:
English
BRN:
4177845