Susan Burgess

The Founding Fathers, Pop Culture, and Constitutional Law

Who's Your Daddy?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the representation of law and legitimacy in various sites of popular culture. To this end, soap operas, romance novels, tabloid newspapers, reality television, and coming out narratives provide alternative ways to understand the relationship between paternal power and law from the bottom up.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9780754678410
• ISBN-10: 0754678415
• Artikelnr.: 45368080

Autorenporträt

Susan Burgess is Professor of Political Science, and Professor of Women's Studies at Ohio University, USA. She has written widely on constitutional theory, as well as gender issues from a legal, and political perspective.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Series editor's preface
Introduction
A fine romance? Judicial restraint as a romance novel
Who's your Daddy? Judicial activism as a soap opera
Space aliens save country from ruin? Critical race theory as tabloid science fiction
Did the Supreme Court come out in Bush v. Gore? The instability of judicial identity
The drama of contemporary constitutional discourse: Lawrence v. Texas as a makeover of Bowers v. Hardwick
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.