Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits
Subtitle: The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780300214222
Subjects: Privacy, right of; Women, united states
Description: "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.