Eavesdropping : an intimate history

Acknowledgments . . vii
List of Illustrations . . viii

Prologue . . 1
Chapter One: Passionate Spectators . . 9
Chapter Two: Under the Leaves . . 39
Chapter Three: Open-plan Living . . 62
Chapter Four: Reluctant Domestication . . 76
Chapter Five: Privacy, Intimacy, and The Selves . . 92
Chapter Six: Personal Power and Social Control . . 109
Chapter Seven: Passionate Exhibitors . . 148
Chapter Eight: What Will the Servants Say? . . 164
Chapter Nine: Virtual Eaves . . 189
Chapter Ten: Intimacy by Theft . . 204

Notes . . 221
References . . 234
Index . . 257