Author: Cohen, Jean L.
Title: Regulating Intimacy : A New Legal Paradigm
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (2002). orig.boards. 24x15cm, xi,290 pp.. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Constitutional Privacy in the Domain of Intimacy: The Battle over Reproductive Rights; Is There a Duty of Privacy? Law, Sexual Orientation, and the Dilemmas of Difference; Sexual Harassment Law: Equality vs. Expressive Freedom and Personal Privacy?; The Debate over the Reflexive Paradigm; Status or Contract? Beyond the Dichotomy ["The regulation of intimate relationships has been a key battleground in the culture wars of the past three decades. In this bold and innovative book, Jean Cohen presents a new approach to regulating intimacy that promises to defuse the tensions that have long sparked conflict among legislators, jurists, activists, and scholars. Disputes have typically arisen over questions that apparently set the demands of personal autonomy, justice, and responsibility against each other. Can law stay out of the bedroom without shielding oppression and abuse? Can we protect the pursuit of personal happiness while requiring people to behave responsibly toward others? [...] Cohen argues that these questions have been impossible to resolve because most legislators, activists, and scholars have drawn on an anachronistic conception of privacy, one founded on the idea that privacy involves secrecy and entails a sphere free from legal regulation. In response, Cohen draws on Habermas and other European thinkers to present a robust "constructivist" defense of privacy, one based on the idea that norms and rights are legally constructed.... - Publisher's description].

Keywords: American Sociology of Law, United States, Right of Privacy, Reflexive Legal, Constitution, Sex Relationships, Constitutional, Jurisprudence, Feminist Theory