Table of Contents

List of contributors. New Perspectives on Law's Violence. On the rationalization of state violence: English liberalism and the noose (T. Kaufman-Osborne). Law's violence and the challenge of 'the feminine' (R. Heberle). Imagining the Law in Literature and Film. Tale of two trials: revolutionary enjoyment, liberal legalism and the sacrifice of critique in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities (W. MacNeil). X-raying Adam's Rib: multiple readings of a (feminist?) (O. Kamir). Family Life, Family Policy. In search of the 'good father': law, family practices and the normative reconstruction of fatherhood (R. Collier). In times of need: abused women's sources of support and changes in legal consciousness (K. Richman). Theoretical Perspectives on Legal Practices. Negotiating through paradoxes: rationality, practicality, and naive realism (or: enjoy your biases) (M. Alberstein).