Representing Women

Susan Sage Heinzelman and Zipporah Batshaw Wiseman, eds.

Susan Sage Heinzelman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin.

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsI. Law and Literature: Breaking Down the WallsFrom Class Actions to "Miss Saigon": The Concept of Representation in the Law / Martha MinowThe Narrative and the Normative in Legal Scholarship / Kathryn AbramsCommonalities: On Being Black and White, Different and the Same / Judy Scales-TrentLess than Pornography: The Power of Popular Fiction / Carol SangerII. Representing Power and Shifting PerspectiveRace and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory / Angela P. HarrisPresence of Mind in the Absence of Body / Linda Brodkey and Michelle FinePornography and Canonicity: The Case of Yeats's "Leda and the Swan" / Elizabeth Butler CullingfordSex at Work / Susan B. EstrichIII. Revising Ancient TalesWhy Women Can't Read: Medieval Hermeneutics, Statutory Law, and the Lollard Heresy Trials / Rita CopelandVoices of Record: Women as Witnesses and Defendants in the Old Bailey Sessions Papers / Margaret Anne DoodyGuilty in Law, Implausible in Fiction: Jurisprudential and Literary Narratives in the Case of Mary Blandy, Parricide, 1752 / Susan Sage HeinzelmanWitnessing Women: Trial Testimony in Novels by Tonna, Gaskell, and Eliot / Christine L. KruegerRepresenting the Lesbian in Law and Literature / Anne B. Goldstein