...Robyn Wiegman Duke University Press 2002 Robyn Intimate Publics: Race, Property, Wiegman and Personhood On 24 April 1998, Donna Fasano, a white woman, and Deborah Perry-Rogers, a black woman, underwent in vitro fer- tilization at a fertility clinic...

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...Lorna Brittan Duke University Press 2007 Lorna Edith Wharton’s Alchemy of Publicity Brittan ​In the growing debate over the right to privacy in turn-of-the-century America, Scribner’s contributed an 1891 editorial claiming that one of the nation’s fundamental...

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