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Social Context and Social Location in the Sociology of Law
About this book
The work in this text represents an evolving body of critical analysis of the law and its social context.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Part I: Theorizing the Struggles: New Challenges, New Directions
- 1. Theory and the Canon: How the Sociology of Law is Organized
- 2. Critical Theory and the Sociology of Law: Contradiction and Currency
- Part II: Social Context and the Formation of Law
- 3. Legal Treatment of the Body: The Example of Sexual Abuse by Doctors
- 4. Legal Discourse and Domestic Legal Aid: The Problem of Fitting In
- 5. Of Death, Desire, and Knowledge: Law and Social Control of Witches in Renaissance Europe
- Part III: Social Location and the Application of Law
- 6. The Farmer Takes a Wife and the Wife Takes the Farm: Marriage and Farming
- 7. Medico-legal Expertise and Industrial Disease Compensation: Discipline, Surveillance and Disqualification in the Era of the "Social"
- 8. Confronting the Construct of Child Neglect as Maternal Failure: In Search of Peacemaking Alternatives
- Part IV: Social Location and Resistance to Law
- 9. Communities are Social: Locating Homeplace in the Sociology of Law
- 10. The Crown Owns All the Land? The Mi'gmaq of Listuguj Resist
- 11. The Persuasive Cartographer: Sexual Assault and Legal Discourse in R. v. Ewanchuk
- Index
- Index of Court Cases