Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits: The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy (Yale Law Library Legal History and Reference)

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. Read more