Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
