Asian Studies: The Privacy Project Bibliography Materials in Western languages on privacy issues Edited by Bonnie S. McDougall and Nadja Kanellopoulou, Last updated 26 February 2004

The books and articles listed below have privacy issues such as secrecy, shame & guilt, rumour and gossip, and data protection as their main topic; all items are worth at least cursory reading. Suggestions for additional items are very welcome.

Preparation of Bibliography Materials in Chinese on privacy and Bibliography Materials in South Asian languages on privacy is in progress.

1. Agre, Philip and Marc Rotenberg, eds, Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997

2. Allport, Gordon W. and Leo Postman, The Psychology of Rumor, Henry Holt, New York, 1947

3. Arendt, Hannah, The Human Condition, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1958

4. Ariès, Philippe and Georges Duby, eds, A History of Private Life, Vol. 1, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1987

5. Bamisar, David, Privacy and Human Rights 2000: An International Survey of Privacy Laws and Developments, Washington Electronic Privacy Information Center, and London: Privacy International, 2000

6. Bennett, Colin J. and Charles J. Raab, The Governance of Privacy:Policy Instruments in Global Perspective, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002

7. Bok, Sissela, Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984

8. Brown, Donald E., Human Universals, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1991

9. Cooper, Jonathan, ed., Privacy, London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2003

10. Day, Katherine J., "Perspectives on Privacy: a Sociological Analysis", PhD dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 1985

11. Elias, Norbert, The Civilizing Process, The History of Manners and State Formation and Civilization, Blackwell, Oxford, 1994

12. Elias, Norbert, On Civilization, Power, and Knowledge, edited by Stephen Mennell and Johan Goudsblom, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1998

13. Etzioni, Amitai, The Limits of Privacy, Basic Books, New York, 1999

14. Flaherty, David H., ed., Privacy and Data Protection: An International Bibliography, Mansell Publishing, London, 1984

15. Flaherty, David H., Protecting Privacy in Two-Way Electronic Services, Knowledge Industry Publications, White Plains, 1985

16. Flaherty, David H., Protecting Privacy in Surveillance Societies: the Federal Republic of Germany, Sweden, France, Canada, & the United States, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1989

17. Gillis, Christina Marsden, The Paradox of Privacy: Epistolary Form in Clarissa, by University Presses of Florida, Gainesville, 1984

18. Goffman, Erving, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, London, 1969

19. Goffman, Erving, Relations in Public: Microstudies of the Public Order, Basic Books, New York, 1971

20. Hamilton, Robin and Nicolas Soames, eds, Intimate Letters, Marginalia Press, London, 1994

21. Habermas, Jürgen, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, translated by Thomas Burger, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1989.

22. Harbermas, Jürgen, The Theory of Communicative Action, vol 2: Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1987

23. Hoffman, Lance J., ed., Computers and Privacy in the Next Decade, Academic Press, New York, 1980

24. Hofstadter, Samuel H. and George Horowitz, The Right of Privacy, Central Book Company, New York, 1964

25. Inness, Julie C., Privacy, Intimacy and Isolation, Oxford University Press, New York, 1992

26. Jagodzinski, Cecile M., Privacy and Print: Reading and Writing in Seventeenth-Century England, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1999

27. Jamieson, Lynn, Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Societies, Cambridge & Malden, MA: Polity Press, 1998

28. Laurie, Graeme, Genetic Privacy: A Challenge to Medico-Legal Norms, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002. See http://books.cambridge.org/0521660270.htm

29. McDougall, Bonnie S., Love-letters and privacy in modern China : the intimate lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping, Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 2002; ISBN 0-19-925679-9

30. McDougall, Bonnie S. and Anders Hansson, eds, Chinese Concepts of Privacy, Brill, Leiden, 2001

31. McLean, Deckle, Privacy and its Invasion, Praeger, Westport, 1995

32. Magnusson, Lynne, Shakespeare and Social Dialogue: Dramatic Language and Elizabethan Letters, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999

33. Moore, Barrington, Jr, Privacy: Studies in Social and Cultural History, Sharpe, Armonk, 1984

34. Morson, Gary Saul and Caryl Emerson, Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1990

35. Noble, June & William, The Private Me, Delacorte Press, New York, 1980

36. Norback, Craig T., The Computer Invasion, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1981

37. Pateman, Carole, The Sexual Contract, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1988

38. Polly, Gregory Paul, "Private and public letters: epistolary negotiations in the early republic", Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1997

39. Raab, Charles D., The Governance of Schooling: Comparative Studies of Devolved Management, Routledge/Falmer, 2000

40. Raab, Charles D., Governing Education: A Sociology of Policy Since 1945, Edinburgh University Press, 1988

41. Rothstein, Mark A., Genetic Secrets: Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality in the Genetic Era, New Hven: Yale University Press, 1997

42. Rule, James B., Private Lives and Public Surveillance, London: Allen Lane, 1973

43. Scanlon, T. M., What We Owe to Each Other, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1998

44. Schneider, Carl D., Shame, Exposure, and Privacy, Norton, New York and London, 1977 rev ed 1992

45. Schneier, Bruce and Banisar, David, eds, The Electronic Privacy Papers: Documents on the Battle for Privacy in the Age of Surveillance, New York: John Wiley, 1997

46. Schoeman, Ferdinand David, Privacy and Social Freedom, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992

47. Schoeman, Ferdinand David, ed., Philosophical Dimensions of Privacy: An Anthology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1984

48. Scott, Gini Graham, Mind Your Own Business: The Battle for Personal Privacy, Insight Books, Plenum Press, New York and London, 1995

49. Sizer, Richard and Philip Newman, The Data Protection Act: A practical guide, Gower, Aldershot, 1984

50. Smith, H. Jeff, Managing Privacy: Information Technology and Corporate America, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1994

51. Spacks, Patricia Meyer, Privacy: Concealing the 18th-Century Self, Chicag: Chicago University Press, 2003

52. Spacks, Patricia Meyer, Gossip, Knopf, New York, 1985

53. Staples, William G., The Culture of Surveillance: Discipline and Social Control in the United States, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1997

54. Steiner, George, Language and Silence, Essays 1958-1966, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1969

55. Steiner, George, No Passion Spent: Essays 1978-1996, Faber and Faber, London, 1996

56. Steiner, George, "The Distribution of Discourse", in George Steiner: A Reader, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1984

57. Taylor, Charles, Philosophy and the Human Sciences: Philosophical Papers 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985

58. Tsui, Lokman, "Big Mama is Watching You: Internet Control and the Chinese Government", MA Thesis, University of Leiden, 2001

59. Wacks, Raymond, The Protection of Privacy, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1980

60. Wacks Raymond, Personal Information: Privacy and the Law, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989

61. Wacks, Raymond, Law, Morality and the Private Domain, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2000

62. Weintraub, Jeff and Krishan Kumar, eds, Public and Private in Thought and Practice: Perspectives on a Grand Dichotomy, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997

63. Westin, Alan F., Privacy and Freedom, Bodley Head, London, 1967

64. Westin, Alan F., The Dimensions of Privacy: A National Opinion Research Survey of Attitudes Towards Privacy, Garland, New York, 1981

65. Yan Yunxiang, Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy and Family Change in a Chinese Village 1949-1999, Stanford University Press, 2003

66. Yan Yunxiang, The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village, Stanford University Press, 1996.

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