Where Is Your Body?

by MATSUDA, MARI J.

• ISBN13: 9780807067819
• ISBN10: 0807067814
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1997-11-28
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

InWhere Is Your Body?pioneering legal scholar Mari J. Matsuda offers a strikingly insightful look at how our collective experiences of race, class, and gender inform our understanding of law and shape our vision of a more just society.

Author Biography

Charles R. Lawrence III and Mari J. Matsuda, law professors at Georgetown University, speak on race issues and affirmative action across the country. They are also the authors of, among other works, Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech and the First Amendment.

Table of Contents

Introduction
When the First Quail Calls: Multiple Consciousness as Jurisprudential Method	p. 3
Our Identity Politics	p. 13
We the People: Jurisprudence in Color	p. 21
Feminism and Property	p. 29
Feminism and the Crime Scare	p. 37
Critical Race Theory	p. 47
Standing by My Sister, Facing the Enemy: Legal Theory out of Coalition	p. 61
Where Is Your Body? Protest and Social Transformation	p. 73
Who Owns Speech? Violence and Linguistic Space	p. 83
Assaultive Speech and Academic Freedom	p. 103
Change, Backlash, and Learning to Talk	p. 119
Progressive Civil Liberties	p. 131
We Will Not Be Used: Are Asian Americans the Racial Bourgeoisie?	p. 149
Asian Images	p. 161
Why Are We Here? Thoughts on Asian-American Identity and Honoring Asian-Americans in Congress	p. 171
Sansei and the Legacy of the Nisei Vets	p. 181
A Note on Terminology and Social History	p. 191
Epilogue and Acknowledgements	p. 195
Index	p. 199
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