Representing Women - Law, Literature, and Feminism

Susan Sage Heinzelman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin.
Zipporah Batshaw Wiseman is Thomas H. Law Centennial Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Law and Literature: Breaking Down the Walls
From Class Actions to "Miss Saigon": The Concept of Representation in the Law / Martha Minow
The Narrative and the Normative in Legal Scholarship / Kathryn Abrams
Commonalities: On Being Black and White, Different and the Same / Judy Scales-Trent
Less than Pornography: The Power of Popular Fiction / Carol Sanger
II. Representing Power and Shifting Perspective
Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory / Angela P. Harris
Presence of Mind in the Absence of Body / Linda Brodkey and Michelle Fine
Pornography and Canonicity: The Case of Yeats's "Leda and the Swan" / Elizabeth Butler Cullingford
Sex at Work / Susan B. Estrich
III. Revising Ancient Tales
Why Women Can't Read: Medieval Hermeneutics, Statutory Law, and the Lollard Heresy Trials / Rita Copeland
Voices of Record: Women as Witnesses and Defendants in the Old Bailey Sessions Papers / Margaret Anne Doody
Guilty in Law, Implausible in Fiction: Jurisprudential and Literary Narratives in the Case of Mary Blandy, Parricide, 1752 / Susan Sage Heinzelman
Witnessing Women: Trial Testimony in Novels by Tonna, Gaskell, and Eliot / Christine L. Krueger
Representing the Lesbian in Law and Literature / Anne B. Goldstein

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Susan Sage Heinzelman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin.
Zipporah Batshaw Wiseman is Thomas H. Law Centennial Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Heinzelman, Susan Sage Heinzelman
• Mitarbeit: Susan S. Heinzelman (Herausgeber), Susan Sage Heinzelman (Herausgeber), Zipporah Wiseman (Herausgeber), Zipporah Batshaw Wiseman (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.11.1994
• EAN: 9780822314950
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1495-0
• Seiten: 400
• Abmessung: 161 mm x 231 mm x 29 mm
• Gewicht: 708 g
• Serien: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; Gender Studies, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory