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Lake Jessica |
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The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits : The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy / / Jessica Lake |
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New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (321 pages) |
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Collana |
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Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Privacy, Right of |
Women's rights |
Photography - History |
Motion pictures - History |
United States |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2016. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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