Document Type
Article
Media Type
Text
Abstract
This article suggests that the right to privacy, as it was originally described by Warren and Brandeis, reflects their era's gender bias. The authors describe the social, economic and legal background for the original, gender-biased pronouncement of the right, as well as its subsequent development, and how this bias affects legal scholarship in the area today. The authors suggest that legal scholars need to be more sensitive to the gender bias that exists in privacy law, and that alternative analyses which recognize this bias already exist.
First Page
441
Last Page
478
Publication Date
7-1-1990
Department
Other
ISSN
0734-1490
Language
eng
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Recommended Citation
Allen, Anita L. and Mack, Erin
(1990)
"How Privacy Got Its Gender,"
Northern Illinois University Law Review: Vol. 10:
Iss.
3, Article 2.
Suggested Citation
Anita L. Allen and Erin Mack, How Privacy Got Its Gender, 10 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 441 (1990).
