Courting Failure: Women and the Law in Twentieth-century LiteratureUniversity of Akron Press, 2007 - 294 páginas For the past twenty years, the law and literature movement has been gaining ground. More recently, a feminist perspective has enriched the field. With Courting Failure: Women and the Law in Twentieth-Century Literature, Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson adds a compelling voice to the discussion. Courting Failure critically explores the representation of women, fictional and historical, in conflict with the law. Macpherson focuses on the judicial system and the staging of women's guilt, examining both the female suspect and the female victim in a wide variety of media, including novels like Toni Morrison's Beloved and Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, theatrical plays, movies such as I Want to Live! and Legally Blonde, and the television series Ally McBeal. In these texts and others, canonical or popular, Macpherson exposes the court as an arena in which women often fail, or succeed only by subverting the system. Combining feminist literary theory with the discourse of the law and literature movement, Courting Failure is a highly readable and analytically rigorous study of justice and gender on the page and screen. |
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... tion . " " But acknowledgment of position is clearly not enough ; in rela- tion to law and literature , careful critical engagement with diverse texts is paramount , whatever their “ ethnic origin " ( or the critic's ) . Maria ...
... tion . " " But acknowledgment of position is clearly not enough ; in rela- tion to law and literature , careful critical engagement with diverse texts is paramount , whatever their “ ethnic origin " ( or the critic's ) . Maria ...
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... tion of facile interjections like , “ Listen to me . The end is almost nev- er far off any time at all ! " ( 104 ) , Cooper undermines her own narra- tive . The voice of the ghostly ex - slave is presented as ignorant through lack of ...
... tion of facile interjections like , “ Listen to me . The end is almost nev- er far off any time at all ! " ( 104 ) , Cooper undermines her own narra- tive . The voice of the ghostly ex - slave is presented as ignorant through lack of ...
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... tion to class - privileged , heterosexual , white women . Such a realization makes it doubly imperative that the intersection of gender and the law be explored fully . Like Martha Fineman , I am interested in " the role of law in the ...
... tion to class - privileged , heterosexual , white women . Such a realization makes it doubly imperative that the intersection of gender and the law be explored fully . Like Martha Fineman , I am interested in " the role of law in the ...
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