Social Context and Social Location in the Sociology of Law / / ed. by Gayle MacDonald.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Beaman, Lori,; Doran, Chris \x27Nob\x27,; Hughes, Patricia,; Johnson, Rebecca,; MacDonald, Gayle M.,; Machum, Susan T.,; Martin, Melinda,; Noonan, Sheila,; Sprenger, Audrey,; Wachholz, Sandra,
• HerausgeberIn: MacDonald, Gayle,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

The sociology of law in the 1990s encountered uncertain terrain. The reconsideration of questions of race, class, and gender have destabilized traditional discourses of the previous 30 years. Global economic politics, restless divisions within both nation and state, and increasing demands from the marginalized have nearly paralysed the possibility for traditional theory to address the very real and serious problems faced by increasing numbers of people. The work in this text represents an evolving body of critical analysis of the law and its social context. Moving from Gayle MacDonald's overview of the traditional discourses of the sociology of law and the promise of critical theory, contributing authors offer insights into the effect of social context on the formation of law and the ways in which the particularlities of social location bear on the application of law and resistance to it.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part I: Theorizing the Struggles: New Challenges, New Directions -- 1. Theory and the Canon: How the Sociology of Law is Organized -- 2. Critical Theory and the Sociology of Law: Contradiction and Currency -- Part II: Social Context and the Formation of Law -- 3. Legal Treatment of the Body: The Example of Sexual Abuse by Doctors -- 4. Legal Discourse and Domestic Legal Aid: The Problem of Fitting In -- 5. Of Death, Desire, and Knowledge: Law and Social Control of Witches in Renaissance Europe -- Part III: Social Location and the Application of Law -- 6. The Farmer Takes a Wife and the Wife Takes the Farm: Marriage and Farming -- 7. Medico-legal Expertise and Industrial Disease Compensation: Discipline, Surveillance and Disqualification in the Era of the "Social" -- 8. Confronting the Construct of Child Neglect as Maternal Failure: In Search of Peacemaking Alternatives -- Part IV: Social Location and Resistance to Law -- 9. Communities are Social: Locating Homeplace in the Sociology of Law -- 10. The Crown Owns All the Land? The Mi'gmaq of Listuguj Resist -- 11. The Persuasive Cartographer: Sexual Assault and Legal Discourse in R. v. Ewanchuk -- Index -- Index of Court Cases