Representing women : law, literature, and feminism /
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1994
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| Series: | Post-contemporary interventions
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Table of 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 Yeat'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