After Identity: A Reader In Law And Culture

397 Pages·1995·6.682 MB·English

by  Dan Danielsen, Karen Engle

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after identity
A R eader in Law and Culture
Edited by
Dan Danielsen and Karen Engle
Routledge
Taylor &. Francis Group
New York London
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
After identity : a reader in law and culture / edited by Dan Danielsen
and Karen Engle,
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-415-90996-1 (cloth) 0-415-90997-X (pb)
1. Sociological jurisprudence. 2. Group identity—United States.
3. Sex and law—United States. I. Danielsen, Dan. II. Engle, Karen.
K376.A37 1994
340'. 115—dc20 94-3734
CIP
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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PART ONE: SEXUALITY
Introduction to Sexuality 3
1. A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto
Mary Joe Frug 7
2. The Politics of the Closet:
Legal Articulation of
Sexual Orientation Identity
Janet E. Halley 24
3. Identity Strategies:
Representing Pregnancy and Homosexuality
Dan Danielsen 39
PART Two: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Introduction to Affirmative Action 63
4. Race Consciousness
Gary Peller 67
5. Political Power and Cultural Subordination:
A Case for Affirmative Action in Legal Academia
Duncan Kennedy 83
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Vt 6. The Obliging Shell
(An Informal Essay on Formal Equal Opportunity)
Patricia J. Williams 103
PART THREE: COMMUNITY
Introduction to Community 125
7. Stories and Standing: The Legal Meaning of Identity
Gerald Torres (S Kathryn Milun 129
8. "The Black Community," Its Lawbreakers,
and a Politics of Identification
Regina Austin 143
9. Decentering Decentralization
Jerry Frug 165
PART FouR: PosTCOLONIALISM
Introduction to Postcolonialism 187
10. An Autumn Weekend:
An Essay on Law and Everyday Life
David Kennedy 191
11. Female Subjects of Public International Law:
Human Rights and the Exotic Other Female
Karen Engle 210
12. Modernism, Nationalism,
and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction
Nathaniel Berman 229
13. The Properties of Culture
and the Politics of Possessing Identity:
Native Claims in the Cultural Appropriation Controversy
Rosemary J. Coombe 251
PART FIVE: VIOLENCE
Introduction to Violence 273
14. Beyond the Privacy Principle
Kendall Thomas 277
15. On Terrorism: Vtt
Reflections on Violence and the Outlaw
Ileana M. Po"as 294
16. Outlaw Women:
An Essay on Thelma fS Louise
Elizabeth V. Spelman and Martha Minow 314
17. Mapping the Margins:
Intersectionality, Identity Politics,
and Violence Against Women of Color
Kimberte Crenshaw 332
Index 355
Permissions 373
Notes on Contributors 375
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for my grandmother,
Amy Gaines Fabra
K.E.
for my parents,
Roy Danielsen and Sylvia Danielsen
D.D.
in memory ofM ary Joe Frug
K.E. &D.D.