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Riding the black ram : law, literature, and gender /
Disruptive women, with their real or imagined excesses, have long provided the material for literary and legal narratives. This work analyses a series of texts to demonstrate the persistence of certain gender stereotypes. In her 1820 trial for adultery Queen Caroline was depicted in a cartoon riding...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford Law Books,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Cultural lives of law.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Disruptive women, with their real or imagined excesses, have long provided the material for literary and legal narratives. This work analyses a series of texts to demonstrate the persistence of certain gender stereotypes. In her 1820 trial for adultery Queen Caroline was depicted in a cartoon riding on a black ram that had the face of her Italian lover. As this book reveals, a number of women, remembered largely for their insubordinate presence, have metaphorically 'ridden the black ram' in the last 700 years. The author reveals a disquieting pattern in the representations of women, and provides a new recognition of the significance of sexuality and gender in the way we narrate our world. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxv, 168 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780804773683 0804773688 0804756805 9780804756808 |