Overview

This provocative collection of essays by scholars from the UK,Canada, Australia and New Zealand explores the uneasy relationship between law and popular culture from a feminist perspective. The essays not only consider the representation of law in popular culture, including film, crime fiction and the media, but also the representation of popular culture in legal texts. Romancing the Tomes shows that while popular culture is bewitched by law, particularly anything to do with sex and crime, law is anxious to resist the unruliness of popular culture. The collection is multidisciplinary, with contributors from a range of areas, including Cultural Studies, Womens Studies and Legal Studies. The essays are complemented by the poems of prize-winning lawyer-poet, MTC Cronin. Romancing the Tomes will appeal to a wide cross-section of academic and general readers. It is suitable for inclusion on undergraduate reading lists for Law, History, Womens Studies, Criminology and Media Studies, as well as any other course with an interest in cultural studies.

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Author:   Margaret Thornton
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge Cavendish
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9781859417232

ISBN 10:   185941723
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   27 August 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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'A collection of essays addressing aspects of the nexus between popular culture, law and feminism is likely to engender interest across a broad spectrum of scholars engaged in socio-legal theory. Romancing the Tomes will not disappoint, providing distinctive, original and thoughtful contributions. Three factors mark the book as worthy of particular consideration - firstly, its contributors adopt a lively, provocative style, which is hugely readable (you could take this book on holiday) yet delivers sophistication to serious issues. Second, the collection ranges over a great variety of topics, providing proper pause to the intellectual community in realising the scope of links between popular culture, law and feminism. Lastly (and this point derives in part from those forgoing), although the declared foci of the title may well appeal to the very particular sectors of the academic community, it provides material of significance for all thinkers - whether primarily 'social', 'political', 'cultural' or 'legal' in their discursive identity - concerned with the currents which create our civilisations, from reception theory to cyber pornography, from the creation of the judicial imagination to the interconnectedness of fact and fiction, violence and love.'Feminist Legal Studies 12: 109-111, 2004

Author Information

Margaret Thornton, BA (Hons) (Syd), LLB (NSW), LLM (Yale), FASSA, is Professor of Law and Legal Studies at La Trobe University, Melbourn.

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