Where is your body? : and other essays on race, gender, and the law /

Where is your body? : and other essays on race, gender, and the law /

Revisiting the ways in which her own experiences as a Japanese-American woman have informed her approach to the law, Matsuda offers powerful insight into how our collective experiences inform our understanding of the law. From stories of the Japanese-American internment camps to her reactions to rac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Matsuda, Mari J., 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, 1996
Boston : c1996
Boston, MA : 1996
Boston, MA : [1996], ©1996
Boston, MA : c1996
Boston, MA : ©1996
Boston, Mass. : c1996
Boston, MA : 1996
Subjects:
1993-
Since 1993
Education, Higher > Political aspects > United States
Equality > United States
Feminism > United States
Group identity > Political aspects > United States
Minorities > Political activity > United States
Minorities > United States > Political activity
Political correctness > United States
Social change > United States
Education, Higher > Political aspects
Equality
Feminism
Group identity
Group identity > Political aspects
Minorities > Political activity
Political correctness
Social change
Social policy
United States > Social policy > 1993-
United States
Table of Contents:
  • 1. When the First Quail Calls: Multiple Consciousness as Jurisprudential Method
  • 2. Our Identity Politics
  • 3. We the People: Jurisprudence in Color
  • 4. Feminism and Property
  • 5. Feminism and the Crime Scare
  • 6. Critical Race Theory
  • 7. Standing by My Sister, Facing the Enemy: Legal Theory out of Coalition
  • 8. Where Is Your Body? Protest and Social Transformation
  • 9. Who Owns Speech? Violence and Linguistic Space
  • 10. Assaultive Speech and Academic Freedom
  • 11. Change, Backlash, and Learning to Talk
  • 12. Progressive Civil Liberties
  • 13. We Will Not Be Used: Are Asian Americans the Racial Bourgeoisie?
  • 14. Asian Images
  • 15. Why Are We Here? Thoughts on Asian-American Identity and Honoring Asian-Americans in Congress
  • 16. Sansei and the Legacy of the Nisei Vets
  • A Note on Terminology and Social History
  • 1 When the First Quail Calls: Multiple Consciousness as Jurisprudential Method
  • 2. Our Identity Politics
  • 3. We the People: Jurisprudence in Color
  • 4. Feminism and Property
  • 5. Feminism and the Crime Scare
  • 6. Critical Race Theory
  • 7. Standing by My Sister, Facing the Enemy: Legal Theory out of Coalition
  • 8. Where Is Your Body? Protest and Social Transformation
  • 9. Who Owns Speech? Violence and Linguistic Space
  • 10. Assaultive Speech and Academic Freedom
  • 11. Change, Backlash, and Learning to Talk
  • 12. Progressive Civil Liberties
  • 13. We Will Not Be Used: Are Asian Americans the Racial Bourgeoisie?
  • 14. Asian Images
  • 15. Why Are We Here? Thoughts on Asian-American Identity and Honoring Asian-Americans in Congress
  • 16. Sansei and the Legacy of the Nisei Vets
  • A Note on Terminology and Social History.

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