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Title

Law's promise, law's expression : visions of power in the politics of race, gender, and religion / Kenneth L. Karst.

Author

Karst, Kenneth L.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, c1993.

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Additional Authors

Yale University Press, publisher.

Description

xii, 321 p.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Civil rights > United States
• Equality before the law > United States
• Social movements > United States
• Law > Political aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-308) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Imposing Order: Law and the Origins of the Social Issues Agenda. The Promise of Order and the Power of Expression. Law, Expression, and the Status of Groups -- 2. Law and Status Politics in the Theater State. The Social Issues and the Symbols of Government. The Social Issues and the Nationalization of "Factions" The Social Issues, the Congress, and the President -- 3. "Family Values": Policing the Gender Line. A Deferred Prologue: The Anxieties of Manhood and the Expression of Power. Religion, Sex, and Politics. Women as Unreason. Pornography and Law as Images of Power. Maternal Images: Abortion and the Expression of Women's Status. The "Family," the Gender Line, and the Expression of Gay Identity -- 4. Representations of Race. Images of Disorder. Formal Racial Neutrality in the Politics and Law of Counterrevolution. The Primacy of Private Discrimination in Racial Subordination. Government, Expression, and the Social Meanings of Race: Labeling and Silencing.
• Government, Expression, and the Social Meanings of Race: The Languages of Liberation and of Hate. Enacting the Narratives of Inclusion -- 5. Race, Gender, and Political Stagecraft: Two Revivals from Recent Seasons. The Manliness of War. The Morality of the Poor -- 6. The Cross and the Flag. The Politics of Religion and the Symbols of Government. "Capture the Flag" as a Political Game. Symbols of Authority and Power -- 7. The Constitution of a Community of Equal Citizens. Judicial Review and the Politics of Exclusion. The Enduring Principle of Equal Citizenship. Living with Pluralization and Its Discontents.

ISBN

0300057601

LCCN

^^^93036591^

OCLC

28927000

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library