Why Privacy Isn't Everything
Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability
Why Privacy Isn't Everything
Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability
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Description
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.
The book addresses such questions as, What does it mean to be accountable for conduct? For what personal matters am I accountable, and to whom? Allen concludes that the sticky webs of accountability that encase ordinary life are flexible enough to accommodate egalitarian moral, legal and social practices that are highly consistent with contemporary feminist reconstructions of liberalism.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Accountability in Theory and Practice
Chapter 3 Accountability to Family and Race
Chapter 4 Accountability for Health
Chapter 5 Accountability for Sex
Product details
| Published | 01 Sep 2004 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9780585463292 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Series | Feminist Constructions |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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