Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter One. Symbolic Power and Legitimacy 22
6. Chapter Two. Social Poiesis and Symbolic Power 43
7. Chapter Three. Law’s Symbolic Power to Legitimize 61
8. Chapter Four. Symbolic Violence and Illegitimacy: The Political Uncanny 83
9. Chapter Five. The Symbolic Power and Violence of Legal Utterances 101
10. Chapter Six. The Legitimacy of the Family: Family Law and Gothic Fiction 119
11. Chapter Seven. The Political Uncanny of the Family: Patricia Duncker’s The Deadly Space Between and the Civil Partnership Act 2004 136
12. Chapter Nine. Resistance and Legitimacy 197
13. Chapter Ten. Making the Law 217
14. Notes 233
15. Bibliography 311
16. Index 343