Book contents
- Injury and Injustice
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Injury and Injustice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Injury and the Construction of Legal Subjects
- Part II Constructing Injury and Imagining Remedies
- Chapter Five Chairs, Stairs, and Automobiles
- Chapter Six Incommensurability and Power in Constructing the Meaning of Injury at the Medical Malpractice Disputes
- Chapter Seven Injury Fields
- Chapter Eight Good Injuries
- Chapter Nine Privacy and the Right to One's Image
- Part III Inequality and/as Injury
- Conclusion
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- References
Chapter Nine - Privacy and the Right to One's Image
A Cultural and Legal History
from Part II - Constructing Injury and Imagining Remedies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2018
Book contents
- Injury and Injustice
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Injury and Injustice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Injury and the Construction of Legal Subjects
- Part II Constructing Injury and Imagining Remedies
- Chapter Five Chairs, Stairs, and Automobiles
- Chapter Six Incommensurability and Power in Constructing the Meaning of Injury at the Medical Malpractice Disputes
- Chapter Seven Injury Fields
- Chapter Eight Good Injuries
- Chapter Nine Privacy and the Right to One's Image
- Part III Inequality and/as Injury
- Conclusion
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- References
Summary
In the past hundred years, in increasing numbers, Americans have turned to the law to help them defend their reputations and public images. The twentieth century saw the creation of what Barbas describes as laws of public image, and the phenomenon of personal image litigation. This chapter explores the origins of these laws of image, tracing them to the rise of an image-conscious self, the modal self of our mass-mediated, mass consumer society. The laws of image are an expression of a people who have become fascinated, even obsessed, with their personal images—who have come to see their images as coextensive with their identities, so that an injury to one’s image constitutes an injury to one’s self.
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- Injury and InjusticeThe Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress, pp. 202 - 228Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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