The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits: The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2016
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780300225303
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 11/15/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Jessica Lake
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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