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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... male authors " but argues that this " hardly denotes acceptance of the traditional canon when the male narrative enter- prise itself is being criticized for its violence and its twisting of the truth . " This seems a curious argument ...
... male authors " but argues that this " hardly denotes acceptance of the traditional canon when the male narrative enter- prise itself is being criticized for its violence and its twisting of the truth . " This seems a curious argument ...
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... male sexual predator : Think of her as a man sitting there accused of a like crime . A husband , who was only trying to protect his home . Now hold it , hold that impression and look at Beryl Caighn . Look at her , look at her hard , a ...
... male sexual predator : Think of her as a man sitting there accused of a like crime . A husband , who was only trying to protect his home . Now hold it , hold that impression and look at Beryl Caighn . Look at her , look at her hard , a ...
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... male lawyers , 190 , 193 , 203 male prisoners , 23 , 37 male slaves , 92 March , Cristie , 46 Marks , Grace , 32 , 36 , 39–48 , 53 , 187 Marshall , Paule : Daughters , 60 , 248n25 Martin , Valerie , 25 , 89 , 101 , 102 , 227 ; Property ...
... male lawyers , 190 , 193 , 203 male prisoners , 23 , 37 male slaves , 92 March , Cristie , 46 Marks , Grace , 32 , 36 , 39–48 , 53 , 187 Marshall , Paule : Daughters , 60 , 248n25 Martin , Valerie , 25 , 89 , 101 , 102 , 227 ; Property ...
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