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Guarding Life's Dark Secrets: Legal and Social Controls over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy
Guarding Life's Dark Secrets tells the story of an intriguing aspect of the social and legal culture in the United States, the construction and destruction of a network of doctrines designed to protect reputation. The strict and unbending rules of decency and propriety of the nineteenth century, especially concerning sexual behavior, paradoxically provided ways to protect and shield respectable men and women who deviated from the official norms. This "Victorian compromise," which created an important zone of privacy, first came under attack from moralists for its tolerance of sin. During the second half of the twentieth century, the old structure was largely dismantled by an increasingly permissive society. Rich with anecdotes, Friedman's account draws us into the present. The Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution to include a right of privacy, which has given ordinary people increased freedom, especially in matters of sex, reproduction, and choice of intimate partners. The elite, however, no longer have the freedom they once had to violate decency rules with impunity. Although public figures may have lost some of their privacy rights, ordinary people have gained more privacy, greater leeway, and broader choices. These gains, however, are now under threat as technology transforms the modern world into a world of surveillance. .
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Scouts in Bondage: And Other Violations of Literary Propriety
Step inside Michael Bell's antiquarian bookshop, stocked with rare and fine collectibles of infinite variety, from Book of Blank Maps, With Instructions, to Autobiography of the Best Abused Man in the World. By perusing these curious works from bygone times, inquiring readers will be rewarded with instruction on such rarely understood pursuits as Single-Handed Cruising and Girls' Interests. A treasure trove of the best of bookmaking, here is a library of laughs..
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Propriety and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico (Latin American Silhouettes)
The eighteenth century in New Spain witnessed major changes: among these, one of the most significant was the adoption of French customs among the upper groups of society in response to the spreading ideas of the Enlightenment. These new ideas, it has been assumed, brought a relaxation of social customs. But Viqueira Alban takes this assumption, and raises the question: Was it really a period of relaxation of social customs, in this age of growth without development? He discovered that the movement of rural workers and their families to urban centers created a concern within the church and government hierarchy about the threat of disorder, leading to the need for new social restraints. This text is ideal for colonial Latin American survey courses, courses on the history of Mexico and Latin American literature, and courses on the popular culture and social history of Latin America..
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Adam Smith: The Rhetoric of Propriety (Suny Series, Rhetoric in the Modern Era) (Suny Series, Rhetoric in the Modern Era)
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Commodity & Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776-1970
Most people understand property as something that is owned, a means of creating individual wealth. But in Commodity and Propriety, the first full-length history of the meaning of property, Gregory Alexander uncovers in American legal writing a competing vision of property that has existed alongside the traditional conception. Property, Alexander argues, has also been understood as proprietary, a mechanism for creating and maintaining a properly ordered society. This view of property has even operated in periods—such as the second half of the nineteenth century—when market forces seemed to dominate social and legal relationships. In demonstrating how the understanding of property as a private basis for the public good has competed with the better-known market-oriented conception, Alexander radically rewrites the history of property, with significant implications for current political debates and recent Supreme Court decisions. .
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The Family Shakespeare, Volume Three, The Histories, by Thomas Bowdler: The Family Shakespeare in Three Volumes: in which nothing is added to the original ... with propriety be read aloud in a Family
The Family Shakespeare is one of the most famous works ever written There is even a word introduced by it into the English language: "Bowdlerized". The American Heritage Dictionary defines bowdlerize as: "To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from (a book, for example)". The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines bowdlerize to mean: 1. to expurgate (as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar 2. to modify by abridging, simplifying, or distorting in style or content Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) was a recognized authority on Shakespeare. He was also a recognized chess player who contested several chess matches against François-André Danican Philidor (1726-1795), who was considered to be the strongest chess player in the world at that time and is now regarded as having been the first unofficial world chess champion. Basically, the author or really the editor Thomas Bowdler went through all 36 recognized plays by William Shakespeare and cut out all the dirty or scary parts, so as to make them suitable to be read to children. The book was enormously successful at first, going through several printings. However, eventually, the book was subjected to calumny and ridicule, precisely because it cut out all the scary or controversial parts. Bowdler's name has since became associated with censorship of literature, motion pictures and television programs. For example, in Hamlet, when Ophelia is believed to have committed suicide, in the Bowdlerized version, she clearly drowns by accident..
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The Family Shakespeare - Volume One, The Comedies by Thomas Bowdler: The Family Shakespeare in Three Volumes: in which nothing is added to the original ... with propriety be read aloud in a Family
The Family Shakespeare is one of the most famous works ever written There is even a word introduced by it into the English language: "Bowdlerized". Most of the editorial changes by Thomas Bowdler were not so radical as has been commonly supposed. In many ways, they improved upon the work of Shakespeare by making his words easier to understand by the modern reader. Bowdler has certainly been treated unfairly by history. No publication or performance of a play by Shakespeare follows the original script exactly, for the simple reason that the language has evolved and modern audiences would not understand it. Thus, there have been many editorial changes to Shakespeare. It is just that the other modern editors do not put their names on the cover and announce what they have done..
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The Family Shakespeare, Volume Two, The Tragedies, by Thomas Bowdler: The Family Shakespeare in Three Volumes in which nothing is added to the original ... with propriety be read aloud in a Family
The Family Shakespeare is one of the most famous works ever written There is even a word introduced by it into the English language: "Bowdlerized". The American Heritage Dictionary defines bowdlerize as: "To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from (a book, for example)". The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines bowdlerize to mean: 1. to expurgate (as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar 2. to modify by abridging, simplifying, or distorting in style or content Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) was a recognized authority on Shakespeare. He was also a recognized chess player who contested several chess matches against François-André Danican Philidor (1726-1795), who was considered to be the strongest chess player in the world at that time and is now regarded as having been the first unofficial world chess champion. Basically, the author or really the editor Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) went through all 36 recognized plays by William Shakespeare and cut out all the dirty or scary parts, so as to make them suitable to be read to children. The book was enormously successful at first, going through several printings. However, eventually, the book was subjected to calumny and ridicule, precisely because it cut out all the scary or controversial parts. Bowdler's name has since became associated with censorship of literature, motion pictures and television programs. For example, in Hamlet, when Ophelia is believed to have committed suicide, in the Bowdlerized version, she clearly drowns by accident. In the opening scene of Othello is the following line: "I am one Sir, that come to tell you, your Daughter, and the Moore, are now making the Beast with two backs." This sounds like they are doing something dirty (and who knows what it was that they were doing), so Bowdler re-wrote this line to say: "I am one that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now together." See Volume 2 Page 342 Actually, this change was not so bad. One wonders what the fuss was all about. Indeed, most of the editorial changes by Thomas Bowdler were not so radical as has been commonly supposed. In many ways, they improve upon the work of Shakespeare by making his words easier to understand by the modern reader..
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Elusive Fragments: Making Power, Propriety & Health in Samoa (Carolina Academic Press Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology Series)
The human body is a center of culture and the means by which culture is expressed through action and in thought. Yet, anthropological analyses continue to regard the body as a cultural artifact—something static, objectifiable, and removed from the everyday experiences of living in society. In Elusive Fragments, Drozdow-St. Christian argues that the body does not function simply as a cultural artifact. Based on ongoing field research in Samoa, the author illustrates how everyday actions and physical processes of village and family life actually act as the primary agent of cultural production. Elusive Fragments elucidates the Samoan concerns for dignity, humility, and strength by locating the central dynamics within Samoan culture in physical existence..
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