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Strangers and Intimates

The Rise and Fall of Private Life

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Strangers and Intimates

By: Tiffany Jenkins
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A Financial Times 'What to read in 2025' book

'Brilliantly original . . . an epic journey through the ages, which is endlessly fascinating and full of surprises'
Alice Loxton, author of 18

'From Thomas More and Oliver Cromwell to Jennicam, Big Brother and Monica Lewinsky . . . one of the most thought-provoking books I’ve read in years' Adrian Tinniswood, author of The Power and the Glory
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Who killed private life?


From ancient times to our digital present, Strangers and Intimates traces the dramatic emergence of private life, and argues that it is now in mortal danger.

In this sweeping history, Tiffany Jenkins, an acclaimed 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.

Strangers and Intimates is both a celebration of the private realm and a warning: as social media, surveillance and the expectations of constant openness reshape our lives, are we in danger of losing a part of ourselves?

Today, as we share more than ever before and digital surveillance watches our every move, Jenkins asks a timely question: can private life survive the demands of the twenty-first century?

©2024 Tiffany Jenkins (P)2024 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
Civil Rights & Liberties Europe

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