Imagining Equality without Protection in the Era of the Equal Rights Amendment

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Analyzing Discrimination, Stereotypes, and Gender Roles
6. Witches and Outlaws: Female Stereotypes in Dickens’s Dombey and Son 29
7. Prescient Heroines and Patriarchal Legality in the Sensational 1860s: The Gendered Laws of Genre in Collins’s The Woman in White and Gordon Smythies’s A Faithful Woman 43
8. Detection, Gender, and the Law in Peter Ackroyd’s The Trial of Elizabeth Cree 61
9. Pastel Paratexts and Literary Expectations: Gendered Marketing Practices in the US Book Industry 75
10. 2 Embodiment, Gender, and the Law
11. “If only I didn’t have this REALITY inside me”: Abortion Law and Realities in Literature Exemplified by Annie Ernaux’s Happening 97
12. Women’s Reproductive Rights in Unity Dow’s Novels: Questioning Legal Constraints 109
13. “And the Law is There to Protect Everyone”? Gendered Rape Trials in Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie (2019) 125
14. The Violence of Straightening the Law: How Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay Bill” and Legal Sexual Orientationism Heteronormatize the Legal and Cultural Order 143
15. 3 Intersectionality and Intersecting Legal Regimes
16. Mary Prince’s Slave Narrative and its Legal (After)Life: The Interplay of Gender, Law and Literature in The History of Mary Prince 165
17. Poetic Objection in Sarah Kofman’s “Shoah (ou la Dis-Grâce)” 185
18. Participation? Modest Clothes? (Non‐)Segregation? Jewish Responses to Gender Issues in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century 201
19. Fairly Traceable: Allegorical Depiction of Environmental Violence Against Indigenous People 221
20. 4 Strategies of Empowerment and Emancipation
21. (Un)Tying the Knot: Engagements, Legal Complications and Comic Ambiguity in Lessing’s Minna von Barnhelm 245
22. Imagining Equality without Protection in the Era of the Equal Rights Amendment 269
23. Silencing the Marginalized: A Study of Silence in Silence! The Court is in Session 291
24. Futures of Feminist Law and Literature – An Afterword 307
25. Notes on Contributors 329
26. Index 335