Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits

The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy

von Jessica Lake

322 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: YALE UNIV PR
• ISBN: 9780300214222
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.11.2016
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Yale University Press