| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 312 pages) : illustrations |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 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 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 Illusion of the 'Real' in Ian Callinan's The Lawyer and the Libertine / Margaret Thornton. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Feminist jurisprudence.
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Feminist jurisprudence. |
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Women -- Public opinion.
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Women -- Public opinion. |
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Sex discrimination against women.
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Sex discrimination against women. |
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Feminist theory.
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Feminist theory. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Feminist theory. |
| Added Author |
Thornton, Margaret (Margaret Rose)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Romancing the tomes. London : Cavendish, ©2002 185941723X (OCoLC)642760718 |
| ISBN |
9781843144830 (electronic book) |
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1843144832 (electronic book) |
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9781135337568 (electronic book) |
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113533756X (electronic book) |
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185941723X (paperback) |
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9781859417232 (paperback) |
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