Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-200) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Reinventing privacy -- "Thirsting for the hierarchic privacy of Queen Victoria's century" : Robert Lowell and the transformations of privacy -- Penetrating privacy : confessional poetry, Griswold v. Connecticut, and containment ideology -- Confessions between a woman and her doctor : Roe v. Wade and the gender of privacy -- Confessing the ordinary : Paul Monette's Love alone and Bowers v. Hardwick-- an epilogue.
