Representing women : law, literature, and feminism / Susan Sage Heinzelman and Zipporah Wiseman, editors.

Other author Heinzelman, Susan Sage.
Other author Wiseman, Zipporah Batshaw.
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 1994.
Descriptionxii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Feminist jurisprudence.
Women in literature.
Women--Social conditions.

Contents 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 -- 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 -- 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 session 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.
General noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 94006023
ISBN0822314819 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN0822314959 (paper : acid-free paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks K349 .R47 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold