Romancing the tomes : popular culture, law and feminism /
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.
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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.