Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits

The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy

AvJessica Lake

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

A compelling account of how women shaped the common law right to privacy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesDrawing 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-01-03
Mått:140 x 210 x 27 mm
Vikt:558 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Yale University Press
ISBN:9780300214222

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Rättshistoria inom Juridik
Mänskliga och medborgerliga rättigheter inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

Jessica Lake is a lecturer in law at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia and for 2016 to 2017 will be the Karl Lowenstein Fellow in Political Science and Jurisprudence at Amherst College, Massachusetts.

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"Jessica Lake’s The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits is one of those rare books that truly upends conventional wisdom and changes the way readers understand an important subject. In a fascinating and well written account, Lake retells the history of the right to privacy. She shows how the activism of individual women played a central role in driving the legal recognition of that right. This book persuasively argues that we owe much to women who resisted the unauthorized circulation of photographic images of them. It is bracing and compelling from the first page to the last."—Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence & Political Science, Amherst College