Owning up : privacy, property, and belonging in U.S. women's life writing / [electronic resource] Katherine Adams. Adams, Katherine, 1964- Autobiography Women authors. Women authors, American Biography History and criticism. American prose literature Women authors History and criticism. American literature Women authors History and criticism. American literature 19th century History and criticism. Privacy in literature. Privacy Philosophy. Privacy United States History 19th century. PS366.A88 A32 2009 810.9492072 22 Includes index. Description based on print version record. 'Owning Up' argues that from its beginning the U.S. discourse on privacy has been couched in terms of violation and dispossession, so that even as 19th century Americans came to regard privacy as a natural right, they also understood it as under threat or erasure. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. 2009. 2009 Text 1 online resource (304 p.) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195336801.001.0001 eng United States