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"The regulation of intimate relationships has been a key battleground in the culture wars of the past three decades. In this 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? Can regulation acknowledge a variety of intimate relationships without privileging any? Must regulating intimacy involve a clash between privacy and equality?
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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Regulating Intimacy: A New Legal Paradigm
March 22, 2004, Princeton University Press
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Regulating intimacy: a new legal paradigm
2002, Princeton Univ. Press
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"Reproductive sexuality within monogamous heterosexual marriage is no longer a legally sanctioned moral imperative."
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