ABSTRACT
This provocative collection of essays by scholars from the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand explores the uneasy relationship between law and popular culture from a feminist perspective. The essays not only consider the representation of law in popular culture, including film, crime fiction and the media, but also the representation of popular culture in legal texts.
Romancing the Tomes shows that while popular culture is bewitched by law, particularly anything to do with sex and crime, law is anxious to resist the unruliness of popular culture. The collection is multidisciplinary, with contributors from a range of areas, including cultural studies, women's studies and legal studies. The essays are complemented by the poems of prize-winning lawyer-poet, MTC Cronin. Romancing the Tomes will appeal to a wide cross-section of academic and general readers. It is suitable for inclusion on undergraduate reading lists for law, history, women's studies, criminology and media studies, as well as any other course with an interest in cultural studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART ONE INTRODUCTION
part |2 pages
PART TWO JUDICIAL NOTICE
chapter 2|24 pages
LAWYERS READING LAW/LORE AS POPULAR CULTURE: CONFLICTING PARADIGMS OF REPRESENTATION
part |2 pages
PART THREE TESTAMENT AND TEXTUALITY
chapter 5|26 pages
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DISCOURSES OF ROMANTIC LOVE, AND COMPLEX PERSONHOOD IN THE LAW
part |2 pages
PART FOUR FEMINIST HISTORIOGRAPHIES
part |2 pages
PART FIVE HETEROSEXING CYBERCULTURE
part |2 pages
PART SIX FICTIONS OF THE REAL