Democratic Conception of Privacy

Is privacy a threat to sexual equality, social solidarity, and democratic government?Is privacy valuable only if we live in tyrannical regimes or have shameful secrets tohide? Th e answer to these questions, this book maintains, is no because there aremany forms of privacy that are essential to democratic government and to the typesof freedom, equality, solidarity, and individuality that distinguish democratic fromundemocratic societies. With chapters on privacy and equality, the value of privacyand on privacy and abortion, this book provides an introduction to philosophicaldebates on privacy and off ers a distinctive way to think about them.