Why Privacy Isn't Everything Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability

by Allen, Anita L.

• ISBN13: 9780742514089
• ISBN10: 0742514080
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-16
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author Biography

Anita L. Allen is professor of law and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(14)
1 The Theory and Practice of Accountability	15	(38)
2 Accountability to Family and Race	53	(62)
3 Accountability for Health	115	(26)
4 Accountability for Sex	141	(54)
Conclusion	195	(6)
Index	201	(10)
About the Author	211