Beyond Portia : women, law, and literature in the United States / edited by Jacqueline St. Joan and Annette Bennington McElhiney.
1997
PS169.L37 B49 1997 (Map It)
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Title
Beyond Portia : women, law, and literature in the United States / edited by Jacqueline St. Joan and Annette Bennington McElhiney.
Published
Boston : Northeastern University Press, [1997]
Copyright
©1997
Call Number
PS169.L37 B49 1997
ISBN
155553306X (pbk. : alk. paper)
1555533051 (alk. paper)
1555533051 (alk. paper)
Description
xx, 401 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)36023953
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-384) and index.
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Table of Contents
Foreword / Carolyn Heilbrun Judith Resnik
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Jacqueline St. Joan Annette Bennington McElhiney
1
Convergences: Law, Literature, and Feminism / Carolyn Heilbrun Judith Resnik
11
Feminist Theory in Law: The Difference It Makes / Martha Albertson Fineman
53
Procne's Song: The Task of Feminist Literary Criticism / Donna Perry
73
Cultural Feminism versus Post-structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory / Linda Martin Alcoff
87
Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory / Angela P. Harris
114
Family Fictions/Legal Failures: A Feminist View of Family Law and Literature / Kim Dayton
129
Imagining the Mother's Text: Toni Morrison's Beloved and Contemporary Law / Elizabeth Tobin
140
Seventeen Syllables / Hisaye Yamamoto DeSoto
175
Mama / Lucia Berlin
185
Dead Baby / Jacqueline St. Joan
190
Black Mother Woman / Audre Lorde
193
My Mother's Chair: 1956 / Linda McCarriston
194
Matriphobia / Marilyn Krysl
196
Looking at Them Asleep / Sharon Olds
198
The Lost Girls / Linda Hogan
199
Women Write Patriarchal Wrongs: Narrative Resistance to the Rape Culture / Leone Sandra Hankey
203
The Politics of Rape: Sexual Transgression in Chicana Fiction / Maria Herrera Sobek
216
The Cultural Defense: Beyond Exclusion, Assimilation, and Guilty Liberalism / Daina C. Chiu
226
Objectivity, She Said / Valerie Miner
237
Storyteller / Leslie Marmon Silko
241
begin here / Lucille Clifton
254
To Judge Faolain, Dead Long Enough: A Summons / Linda McCarriston
255
Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway / Lorna Dee Cervantes
257
A Mock Interrogation / Judy Grahn
260
The Ancient / Lisa Lewis
262
I Give You Back / Joy Harjo
265
Mascaras, Trenzas, y Grenas: Un/masking the Self While Un/braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse / Margaret E. Montoya
269
Kindred and Kin: One Story from a Seminar on Literature and Law / Judy Scales-Trent
303
But Is It Law? Using Literature to Penetrate Societal Representations of Women / Teree E. Foster
310
A Time of "Passionate Learning": Using Feminism, Law, and Literature to Create a Learning Community / Melissa Harrison
327
Bibliographies
359
About the Editors
385
About the Contributors
387
Index
393