Eavesdropping : an intimate history - Locke, John L. (New York : Oxford University Press, 2010)
Passionate spectators -- Under the leaves -- Open-plan living -- Reluctant domestication -- Privacy, intimacy, and the selves -- Personal power and social control -- Passionate exhibitors -- What will the servants say? -- Virtual eaves -- Intimacy by theft.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-255) and index.
Keywords: Communication -- Psychological aspects; Eavesdropping; Eavesdropping -- Psychological aspects; Sociolinguistics