Why Privacy Isn't Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal AccountabilityRowman & Littlefield, 2003 - 211 Seiten 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. The book addresses such questions as, What does it mean to be accountable for conduct? For what personal matters am I accountable, and to whom? Allen concludes that the sticky webs of accountability that encase ordinary life are flexible enough to accommodate egalitarian moral, legal and social practices that are highly consistent with contemporary feminist reconstructions of liberalism. |
Inhalt
The Theory and Practice of Accountability | 15 |
Accountability to Family and Race | 53 |
Accountability for Health | 115 |
Accountability for Sex | 141 |
Conclusion | 195 |
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Seite 11 - The maxims are, first, that the individual is not accountable to society for his actions, in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
Seite 4 - We cain't he'p ouah likes an' dislikes, ef we'se bad we ain't to blame. Ef we'se good, we needn't show off, case you bet it ain't ouah doin' We gits into su'ttain channels dat we jes
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