Romancing the tomes : popular culture, law and feminism /

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Imprint:	London : Cavendish, ©2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 312 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Feminist jurisprudence. Women -- Public opinion. Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. Sex discrimination against women. Feminist theory. Feminist jurisprudence. Feminist theory. Sex discrimination against women. Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. Women -- Public opinion. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11382086

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Other authors / contributors:	Thornton, Margaret (Margaret Rose)
ISBN:	9781843144830 1843144832 9781135337568 113533756X 9786610167173 6610167176 9781135337513 1135337519 9781135337551 1135337551 185941723X 9781859417232 1280167173 9781280167171
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	With contributions by scholars from the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, this provocative collection of essays explores the uneasy relationship between law and popular culture from a feminist perspective.
Other form:	Print version: Romancing the tomes. London : Cavendish, ©2002 185941723X

Table of Contents:

1 Law and Popular Culture : Engendering Legal Vertigo / Margaret Thornton
2 Lawyers Reading Law/Lore as Popular Culture : Conflicting Paradigms of Representation / Terry Threadgold
3 She's Watching the Judges : Media Feedback Loops and What Judges Notice / Isabel Karpin
4 Legal Sensations : Sexuality, Textuality and Evidence in a Victorian Murder Trial / Rosanne Kennedy
5 Domestic Violence, Discourses of Romantic Love, and Complex Personhood in the Law / Nan Seuffert
6 Having Trouble with the Law : Racialised Punishment and Testimonies of Resistance / Suvendrini Perera
7 Language as the 'Pretty Woman' of Law : Properties of Longing and Desire in Legal Interpretation and Popular Culture / Judith Grbich
8 Madonna and/or Whore? : Feminism(s) and Public Sphere(s) / Ann Genovese
9 'The Barmaid', 'The Landlady' and 'The Pub[lican]'s Wife : History, Law and Popular Culture of Women's Work in Pubs / Diane Kirkby
10 The Legal Regulation of Cyberpornography : Law's Quest for Borders in a Borderless World / Paula Baron
11 Jail Babes: Turning the Sex of Women's Imprisonment Inside Out / Susanne Davies and Sandy Cook
12 The Moral of the Story : Gender and Murder in Canadian True Crime Magazines of the 1940s / Carolyn Strange and Tina Loo
13 'The Mystery of the Missing Discourse' : Crime Fiction Readership and Questions of Taste / Sue Turnbull
14 The Illusion of the 'Real' in Ian Callinan's The Lawyer and the Libertine / Margaret Thornton.

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