The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits : The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy / Jessica Lake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lake, Jessica, Author.

Series:

Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference.

Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privacy, Right of.

Women's rights.

Photography--History.

Photography.

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A compelling account of how women shaped the common law right to privacy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Drawing on a wealth of original research, Jessica Lake documents how the advent of photography and cinema drove women-whose images were being taken and circulated without their consent-to court. There they championed the creation of new laws and laid the groundwork for America's commitment to privacy. Vivid and engagingly written, this powerful work will draw scholars and students from a range of fields, including law, women's history, the history of photography, and cinema and media studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

One Setting the Scene: Proliferating Pictures and the Advent of Photography and Cinema

Two "Has a Beautiful Girl the Right to Her Own Face?" Privacy, Propriety, and Property

Three Medical Men and Peeping Toms: Spectacles of Monstrosity and the Camera's Corporeal Violations

Four Privacy, the Celluloid City, and the Cinematic Eye

Five Privacy for Profit and a Right of Publicity

Six Hollywood Heroes and Shameful Hookers: Privacy Moves West

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300225303

OCLC:

961454644