89 records matched your query       

Author:

Lake, Jessica, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xiii, 306 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Privacy, Right of--United States--History.
Portraits--History.--United States--History.
Advertising laws--United States--History.
Mass media and women--United States--History.
Mass media--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Advertising laws.
Mass media and women.
Mass media--Moral and ethical aspects.
Portraits--Law and legislation.
Privacy, Right of.
United States.
History.

Notes:

Previously issued as author's doctoral dissertation, University of Melbourne. Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-293) and index.

Contents:

Hollywood heroes and shameful hookers : privacy moves West. "Has a beautiful girl the right to her own face?" : privacy, propriety, and property -- Medical men and peeping toms : spectacles of monstrosity and the camera's corporeal violations -- Privacy, the celluloid city, and the cinematic eye -- Privacy for profit and a right of publicity -- Hollywood heroes and shameful hookers : privacy moves West.

Summary:

"In this book I offer a new history of the evolution of privacy law in the United States that places the legal activism of individual women front and center, women such as the feisty Abigail Roberson, Coney Island high diver Mabel Colyer, the private detective Grace Humiston, Kansas housewife Stella Kunz, Broadway star Gladys Loftus, African American dancer Pauline Myers, and California society matron Gabrielle Melvin"--Page 2.

Series:

Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference

ISBN:

0300214227
9780300214222

LCCN:

2016939462

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)