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Thinking Through the Body of the Law
Contributor(s): Cheah, Pheng (Editor), Fraser, David (Editor), Grbich, Judith (Editor)
ISBN: 0814715451     ISBN-13: 9780814715451
Publisher: New York University Press
OUR PRICE:   $30.40  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 1996
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Annotation: The body of the law is an ambiguous phrase. Conventionally, it designates the law as a determinate corpus; legal codes, statutes, and the rulings of common law. But it can also refer to the subjected body that is produced by and is part of the law. This subjected body is necessary for the law's existence.Thinking Through the Body of the Lawreconceives the role of the body in the founding, maintaining, and regulation of our legal systems and social order and elaborates on its implications for issues of legal responsibility and justice. Taking into account and sometimes challenging the tenets of critical legal theory, critical race theory, and feminist jurisprudence, these essays examine the body and the law as they relate to surrogacy, the Holocaust, land-rights for Aboriginals, murder, the media and insanity, taxation, genetic engineering, and sexy dressing and sexual harassment.
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Law Enforcement
- Law
Dewey: 340.1
LCCN: 95-44549
Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.53" W x 8.47" (1.04 lbs) 248 pages
 
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The body of the law is an ambiguous phrase. Conventionally, it designates the law as a determinate corpus; legal codes, statutes, and the rulings of common law. But it can also refer to the subjected body that is produced by and is part of the law. This subjected body is necessary for the law's existence.
Thinking Through the Body of the Law reconceives the role of the body in the founding, maintaining, and regulation of our legal systems and social order and elaborates on its implications for issues of legal responsibility and justice. Taking into account and sometimes challenging the tenets of critical legal theory, critical race theory, and feminist jurisprudence, these essays examine the body and the law as they relate to surrogacy, the Holocaust, land-rights for Aboriginals, murder, the media and insanity, taxation, genetic engineering, and sexy dressing and sexual harassment.

Contributor Bio(s): Grbich, Judith: - Judith Grbich teaches in the School of Law and Legal Studies, La Trobe University.Cheah, Pheng: - Pheng Cheah teaches in the English Department, Cornell University.Fraser, David: - David Fraser teaches in the Faculty of Law, the University of Sydney. Judith Grbich teaches in the School of Law and Legal Studies, La Trobe Univ"