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The face that launched a thousand lawsuits : the American women who forged a right to privacy /

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 withou...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lake, Jessica (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
Colección:Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.