| Description |
1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Series |
Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference |
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Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference.
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| Contents |
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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-293) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Privacy, Right of -- United States -- History
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Portraits -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
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Advertising laws -- United States -- History
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Mass media and women -- United States -- History
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Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
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LAW -- Privacy.
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LAW -- Constitutional.
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LAW -- Public.
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Advertising laws
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Mass media and women
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Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Portraits -- Law and legislation
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Privacy, Right of
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300225303 |
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030022530X |
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