Bodies of Law,9780691012292

Bodies of Law

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ISBN13: 9780691012292
ISBN10: 0691012296
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-08-01
Publisher(s): Princeton Univ Pr
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Summary

"Alan Hyde has produced a stunning critical anatomy of how the human body figures (and is figured) in American legal discourse. Anyone who wants to understand the myriad mechanisms by which law constructs and regulates corporeality would do well to start with this book. Bodies of Law will stand as a decisive intervention in the study of law and contemporary 'body politics.'"--Kendall Thomas, Columbia Law School

Author Biography

Alan Hyde is Professor and Sidney Reitman Scholar at the Rutgers University School of Law (Newark)

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction 3(16)
Part One: Regulation
The Body as Machine
19(15)
Hawkins v. McGee
The Fatigued Body: On the Progressive History of the Body as Machine
34(14)
The Body as Property
48(32)
Constructing the Autonomous Legal Body: Privacy, Property, Inviolability
80(17)
Reproductive Capacity: Unsalable, Commodified, Compensable
97(12)
Part Two: Desire
Sandwich Man; or, The Economic and Political History of Bodily Display
109(22)
Suppressing Bodily Display: Legal Breasts, Sunbathing, Dance, Photographic Images
131(20)
The Body's Narratives
151(14)
The Legal Vagina
165(8)
The Legal Penis
173(14)
Tranquilizing the Prisoner
187(18)
Part Three: Abjection
Body Wastes
205(17)
The Racial Body
222(19)
Diseased Bodies: Antibodies and Anti-Bodies
241(11)
Offensive Bodies
252(15)
Conclusion A Body Fantasia
258(9)
Table of Cases 267(2)
Index 269

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