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The most basic assertions about our bodies--that they are ours and distinguish us from each other, that they are private and have boundaries, races, and genders--are all political theories, constructed in legal texts for political purposes. So argues Alan Hyde in this first account of the body in le...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hyde, Alan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1997]
Edición:Course Book
Temas:
Critical legal studies.
Human body > Law and legislation.
Law > Philosophy.
LAW / Jurisprudence.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART ONE Regulation
  • Chapter 1. THE BODY AS MACHINE: HAWKINS v. McGEE
  • Chapter 2. THE FATIGUED BODY: ON THE PROGRESSIVE HISTORY OF THE BODY AS MACHINE
  • Chapter 3. THE BODY AS PROPERTY
  • Chapter 4. CONSTRUCTING THE AUTONOMOUS LEGAL BODY: PRIVACY, PROPERTY, INVIOLABILITY
  • Chapter 5. REPRODUCTIVE CAPACITY: UNSALABLE, COMMODIFIED, COMPENSABLE
  • PART TWO. Desire
  • Chapter 6. SANDWICH MAN; OR, THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF BODILY DISPLAY
  • Chapter 7. SUPPRESSING BODILY DISPLAY: LEGAL BREASTS, SUNBATHING, DANCE, PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES
  • Chapter 8. THE BODY'S NARRATIVES
  • Chapter 9. THE LEGAL VAGINA
  • Chapter 10. THE LEGAL PENIS
  • Chapter 11. TRANQUILIZING THE PRISONER
  • PART THREE. Abjection
  • Chapter 12. BODY WASTES
  • Chapter 13. THE RACIAL BODY
  • Chapter 14. DISEASED BODIES: ANTIBODIES AND ANTI-BODIES
  • Chapter 15. OFFENSIVE BODIES
  • Conclusion. A BODY FANTASIA
  • TABLE OF CASES
  • INDEX

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