Law and the Sexual Politics of Interpretation
Beverley Brown(Author)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Book
Paperback/Softback
220 pages
978-0-485-12114-8 (ISBN)
Description
How does the law read books or look at pictures? What happens when legal and non-legal orders of interpretation meet up? When staged around representations of the sexual, the result has often been spectacular public events and debates. The aim of this text is to draw together questions of law and its vision of problems, politics - feminist and non-feminist, and combats over interpretation. Three highly visible areas of controversy stand at the centre of the book: disputes about psychoanalysis and incest; obscenity/pornography; and rape trials. The book looks at moments when law intersects with the interpretative techniques of journalism, literary expression, art, psychoanalysis, medical "sexology", and feminism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-485-12114-8 (9780485121148)
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