Jacqueline Louise Livingston (August 1943 – June 21, 2013)[1] was an American photographer known for her work exploring woman's role as artist and person and investigating the boundaries of intimacy and propriety.
"[7] Demonstrating, the issue of censorship and cultural repression of transgressive photographic works, which was common within the 1900s because of the introduction of pornography laws.
[8] Connie Samaras, a feminist writer and artist who is a professor of art at UC Irvine, writes: Of all her images, though, it was this series of her then six-year-old son masturbating which caused her the most trouble.
Rather than shaming her son into stopping or shaming herself into not taking pictures, Livingston continued to photograph.Livingston viewed her work as a means to change prescriptive notions about women's sexuality and women's artistic production, not as a vehicle to transcend an unalterable material world.Discussing child rearing, Livingston states that: Wilhelm Reich's book The Mass Psychology of Fascism influenced my thinking about child rearing.
In 1985, Livingston, writing in the Cornell Daily Sun, claimed that the dean had warned the chief plaintiff, Donna Zahorik, not to pursue litigation because the university would "destroy her emotionally and financially."