The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits: The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy

By Jessica Lake

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300214227
• ISBN13: 9780300214222
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.3"