Regulating the Body - Autonomy, Control and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law

"This book examines how legal regulation of the body has been rhetorically justified as well as how it has been practiced. Tracing a wide range of ideological, moral, and religious arguments invoked to justify regulation, increase its reach, and authorize punishment for infractions, this book locates a discursive incoherence and worsening hypocrisy in law's regulating of the body"--

About the author

Austin Sarat (Editor)

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. He has also served as Mellon Professor of the Humanities for the Bard Prison Initiative. He has authored or edited more than one hundred books, including Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Human Execution.

Susanna Lee (Editor)

Susanna Lee is Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature at Georgetown University. She is widely published in the areas of literature and moral authority, intellectual history, law and humanities, detective fiction, popular culture, and literary theory. She is the author, most recently, of Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History.

Product details

• Authors: Austin (EDT)/ Lee Sarat
• Assisted by: Susanna Lee (Editor), Austin Sarat (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.08.2025
• EAN: 9781479830633
• ISBN: 978-1-4798-3063-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law