| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 312 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Feminist jurisprudence.
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Women -- Public opinion.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Sex discrimination against women.
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Feminist theory.
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Sociological jurisprudence.
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Lawyers in popular culture.
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LAW -- Essays.
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LAW -- General Practice.
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LAW -- Jurisprudence.
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LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
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LAW -- Practical Guides.
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LAW -- Reference.
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Sociological jurisprudence
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Lawyers in popular culture
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Feminist jurisprudence
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Feminist theory
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Sex discrimination against women
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Women -- Public opinion
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Recht.
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Populaire cultuur.
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Feminisme.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Thornton, Margaret (Margaret Rose)
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| ISBN |
9781843144830 |
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1843144832 |
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9781135337568 |
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113533756X |
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9786610167173 |
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6610167176 |
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9781135337513 |
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1135337519 |
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9781135337551 |
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1135337551 |
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1280167173 |
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9781280167171 |
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