Research Catalog

Title

Law and the senses : sensational jurisprudence / edited by Lionel Bently and Leo Flynn.

Publication

London ; Chicago, IL : Pluto Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Bently, Lionel, 1964-
• Flynn, Leo, 1968-

Description

xii, 262 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Law and social theory

Uniform Title

Law and social theory.

Subject

• Law and sociobiology
• Senses and sensation
• Law > Psychological aspects
• Sociological jurisprudence
• Sensation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Lionel Bently -- 1. Sense and Nonsense: Sensation, Delusion and the Limitation of Sanity in Nineteenth-Century Law / Peter Bartlett -- 2. Law and the Lack of Sense / Kristina Stern -- 3. Promoting a Sexuality: Law and Lesbian and Gay Visual Culture in America / Carl F. Stychin -- 4. Public Order Law and Visions of Englishness / Adam Tomkins -- 5. Senses of Difference: A Sociology of Metaphors in American Legal Discourse / Bernard J. Hibbitts -- 6. Acoustic Justice / Piyel Haldar -- 7. See What I Mean: The Authority of Law and Visions of Women / Leo Flynn -- 8. Fleshing It Out / Matthew Weait -- 9. Touch: Socio-Cultural Attitudes and Legal Responses to Body Alteration / Lois S. Bibbings -- 10. Senses and Symbols: The Construction of 'Drugs' in Historic and Aesthetic Perspective / Desmond Manderson -- 11. Scents as Trademarks: Propertisation of Scents and Olfactory Poverty / Spyros Maniatis -- 12. Regulating Taste / Alan Hunt.

ISBN

0745310699

LCCN

^^^96008272^

OCLC

• 34576687
• SCSB-10320991

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library