Law and mourning / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey.
2017
KF3827.D4 L39 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Law and mourning / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey.
Imprint
Amherst [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, [2017]
Description
ix, 177 pages ; 24 cm.
Series
Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.
Formatted Contents Note
Law and mourning: an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas
Mourning in America : what's law got to do with it? / Ray D. Madoff
The mourning after : posthumous sperm retrieval and the new laws of mourning / Shai J. Lavi
To weep Irish : keening and the law / Andrea Brady
Listening within the "grief of distortions" / Ann Pellegrini
Psychoanalysis, mourning, and the law : Schreber's paranoia as crisis of judging / Mark Sanders
Does mourning become the law? : commodity fetishism and political contestation / Catherine Kellogg.
Mourning in America : what's law got to do with it? / Ray D. Madoff
The mourning after : posthumous sperm retrieval and the new laws of mourning / Shai J. Lavi
To weep Irish : keening and the law / Andrea Brady
Listening within the "grief of distortions" / Ann Pellegrini
Psychoanalysis, mourning, and the law : Schreber's paranoia as crisis of judging / Mark Sanders
Does mourning become the law? : commodity fetishism and political contestation / Catherine Kellogg.
Summary
"[This book] brings together a distinguished group of scholars to explore the many and complex ways that law both regulates and gives meaning to our experience of loss. The essays in this volume illuminate how law helps us to absorb and contend with loss and its reverberations, channeling the powerful emotions associated with death and protecting those vulnerable to them. At the same time, law creates a regulatory framework for death as it establishes the necessity for a clear demarcation of the boundary between life and death, defines what we can and cannot do with the remains of the dead, and creates both privileges and disabilities for survivors. The contributors to the volume also explore how mourning generates critiques of existing legal and political orders which seem compelled by calls from the dead, unleashing an indifference to legal consequences in survivors that can undermine or destroy law." -- Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KF3827.D4 L39 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781625342836 (paperback; alkaline paper)
1625342837 (paperback; alkaline paper)
9781625342829 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1625342829 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1625342837 (paperback; alkaline paper)
9781625342829 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1625342829 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
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