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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Heinzelman, Susan Sage Heinzelman
• Con la collaborazione di: Susan S. Heinzelman (Editore), Susan Sage Heinzelman (Editore), Zipporah Wiseman (Editore), Zipporah Batshaw Wiseman (Editore)
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.11.1994
• EAN: 9780822314950
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1495-0
• Pagine: 400
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 236 mm x 30 mm
• Peso: 704 g
• Illustrazioni: 6 illustrations
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Gender Studies, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory