Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Legacy of Dissent - Feminist Rhetoric and the Law

A rhetorical analysis of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's feminist jurisprudence

About the author

Katie L. Gibson is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetorical studies. Her scholarship investigates the politics of representation in legal discourses, political communication, and popular culture.

Summary

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's lifelong effort to reshape the language of American law has had profound consequences: she has shifted the rhetorical boundaries of jurisprudence on a wide range of fundamental issues from equal protection to reproductive rights. This volume offers a rhetorical analysis of her feminist jurisprudence.

Product details

• Authors: Katie Gibson, Katie L Gibson, Katie L. Gibson
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780817319786
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1978-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanit; Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanit
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science