Representing women : law, literature, and feminism /
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| Imprint: | Durham : Duke University Press, 1994. |
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| Description: | p. cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1672854 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- I. Law and Literature: Breaking Down the Walls
- From Class Actions to "Miss Saigon": The Concept of Representation in the Law
- The Narrative and the Normative in Legal Scholarship
- Commonalities: On Being Black and White, Different and the Same
- Less than Pornography: The Power of Popular Fiction
- II. Representing Power and Shifting Perspective
- Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory
- Presence of Mind in the Absence of Body
- Pornography and Canonicity: The Case of Yeats's "Leda and the Swan"
- Sex at Work
- III. Revising Ancient Tales
- Why Women Can't Read: Medieval Hermeneutics, Statutory Law, and the Lollard Heresy Trials
- Voices of Record: Women as Witnesses and Defendants in the Old Bailey Sessions Papers
- Guilty in Law, Implausible in Fiction: Jurisprudential and Literary Narratives in the Case of Mary Blandy, Parricide, 1752
- Witnessing Women: Trial Testimony in Novels by Tonna, Gaskell, and Eliot
- Representing the Lesbian in Law and Literature