Social Context and Social Location in the Sociology of Law

Published by University of Toronto Press 2001

Social Context and Social Location in the Sociology of Law

Edited by: Gayle MacDonald

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442602960

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Contents

About this book

The work in this text represents an evolving body of critical analysis of the law and its social context.

Author / Editor information

MacDonald Gayle :

Gayle MacDonald is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at St. Thomas University, Fredericton. She is the editor of Critical Issues in Corrections

Reviews

Gail Kellough, York University:

The greatest strength of this book is the diversity of its subject matter and its exploration of links between law and the political, cultural, and economic aspects of society. It is seldom that one finds a single publication that examines the practices of so many different types of law (civil, criminal, and administrative) or does so from so many different angles.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Part I: Theorizing the Struggles: New Challenges, New Directions
1. Theory and the Canon: How the Sociology of Law is Organized Gayle M. MacDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. Critical Theory and the Sociology of Law: Contradiction and Currency Gayle M. MacDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Part II: Social Context and the Formation of Law
3. Legal Treatment of the Body: The Example of Sexual Abuse by Doctors Patricia Hughes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
4. Legal Discourse and Domestic Legal Aid: The Problem of Fitting In Lori Beaman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
5. Of Death, Desire, and Knowledge: Law and Social Control of Witches in Renaissance Europe Sheila Noonan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Part III: Social Location and the Application of Law
6. The Farmer Takes a Wife and the Wife Takes the Farm: Marriage and Farming Susan T. Machum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
7. Medico-legal Expertise and Industrial Disease Compensation: Discipline, Surveillance and Disqualification in the Era of the "Social" Chris 'Nob' Doran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
8. Confronting the Construct of Child Neglect as Maternal Failure: In Search of Peacemaking Alternatives Sandra Wachholz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Part IV: Social Location and Resistance to Law
9. Communities are Social: Locating Homeplace in the Sociology of Law Audrey Sprenger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
10. The Crown Owns All the Land? The Mi'gmaq of Listuguj Resist Melinda Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
11. The Persuasive Cartographer: Sexual Assault and Legal Discourse in R. v. Ewanchuk Rebecca Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Index of Court Cases Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Keywords: Coursebook

eBook

Published: August 1, 2001
ISBN: 9781442602960