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Beyond Portia Women, Law, and Literature in the United States Book

Beyond Portia Women, Law, and Literature in the United States
Beyond Portia Women, Law, and Literature in the United States, This pioneering anthology presents an interdisciplinary collage of women's experiences with the law by mixing creative and analytical writings in law and literature. Beyond Portia opens with grounding essays in both literary and legal theory, and offers t, Beyond Portia Women, Law, and Literature in the United States has a rating of 2.5 stars
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  • Beyond Portia Women, Law, and Literature in the United States
  • Written by author Jacqueline St. Joan
  • Published by Northeastern University Press, 1997
  • This pioneering anthology presents an interdisciplinary collage of women's experiences with the law by mixing creative and analytical writings in law and literature. Beyond Portia opens with grounding essays in both literary and legal theory, and offers t
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Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
Convergences: Law, Literature, and Feminism 11
Feminist Theory in Law: The Difference It Makes 53
Procne's Song: The Task of Feminist Literary Criticism 73
Cultural Feminism versus Post-structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory 87
Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory 114
Family Fictions/Legal Failures: A Feminist View of Family Law and Literature 129
Imagining the Mother's Text: Toni Morrison's Beloved and Contemporary Law 140
Seventeen Syllables 175
Mama 185
Dead Baby 190
Black Mother Woman 193
My Mother's Chair: 1956 194
Matriphobia 196
Looking at Them Asleep 198
The Lost Girls 199
Women Write Patriarchal Wrongs: Narrative Resistance to the Rape Culture 203
The Politics of Rape: Sexual Transgression in Chicana Fiction 216
The Cultural Defense: Beyond Exclusion, Assimilation, and Guilty Liberalism 226
Objectivity, She Said 237
Storyteller 241
begin here 254
To Judge Faolain, Dead Long Enough: A Summons 255
Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway 257
A Mock Interrogation 260
The Ancient 262
I Give You Back 265
Mascaras, Trenzas, y Grenas: Un/masking the Self While Un/braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse 269
Kindred and Kin: One Story from a Seminar on Literature and Law 303
But Is It Law? Using Literature to Penetrate Societal Representations of Women 310
A Time of "Passionate Learning": Using Feminism, Law, and Literature to Create a Learning Community 327
Bibliographies 359
About the Editors 385
About the Contributors 387
Index 393


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