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Representing women : law, literature, and feminism / Susan Sage Heinzelman and Zipporah Batshaw Wiseman, editors. Durham : Duke University Press, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015032200332 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#cc-by-nc-nd-4.0 This work is protected by copyright law (which includes certain exceptions to the rights of the copyright holder that users may make, such as fair use where applicable under U.S. law), but made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. You must attribute this work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Only verbatim copies of this work may be made, distributed, displayed, and performed, not derivative works based upon it. Copies that are made may only be used for non-commercial purposes. Please check the terms of the specific Creative Commons license as indicated at the item level. For details, see the full license deed at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0. REPRESENTING WOMEN V V POST -CONTEMPORARY INTERVENTIONS Series Editors: Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson REPRESENTING WOMEN Law, Literature, and Feminism v SUSAN SAGE HEINZELMAN AND ZIPPORAH BATSHAW WISEMAN, EDITORS Duke University Press Durham and London 1994 DEDICATION ? V From Sue — To Kurt, Calum, and Clare always loving, always laughing From Zipporah To Fred, David, and Eric, without whom I would rather not even imagine © 1994 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States ofAmerica on acid-free paper <»> Designed by Cherie Holma Westmoreland Typeset in Joanna by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. Anne B. Goldstein, "Representing the Lesbian in Law and Literature," © Anne B. Goldstein, 1994. CONTENTS ^03H39O Preface vii Acknowledgments xi I LAW AND LITERATURE: BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS 1 From Class Actions to "Miss Saigon": The Concept ofRepresentation in the Law Martha Minow 8 The Narrative and the Normative in Legal Scholarship Kathryn Abrams 44 Commonalities: On Being Black and White, Different and the Same Judy Scales-Trent 57 Less than Pornography: The Power ofPopular Fiction Carol Sanger 7c H REPRESENTING POWER AND SHIFTING PERSPECTIVE 101 Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory Angela P. Harris 106 Presence ofMind in the Absence ofBody Linda Brodkey and Michelle Fine 147 1 I Pornography and Canonicity: The Case ofYeats's "Leda and the Swan" Elizabeth Butler Cullingford 165 Sex at Work Susan B. Estrich 189 m REVISING ANCIENT TALES 247 Why Women Can't Read: Medieval Hermeneutics, Statutory Law, and the Lollard HeresyTrials Rita Copeland 253 Voices ofRecord: Women as Witnesses and Defendants in the Old Bailey Sessions Papers Margaret Anne Doody 287