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The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits
The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy
- 256 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits
The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- 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