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.... It describes the book’s archival foundations and introduces several of the historical characters who populate the rest of the work. cross-dressing law transgender studies queer studies critical cultural legal studies San Francisco history ...

... This chapter is a study of law and legal knowledge production in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick , among other works. Melville illuminates a transformation of the idea and practice of equity from the early modern high conciliar jurisdiction of the Lord Chancellor to a system of jurisprudence more...

...Power, Knowledge, Justice This chapter is a study of law and legal knowledge production in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick , among other works. Melville illuminates a transformation of the idea and practice of equity from the early modern high conciliar jurisdiction of the Lord Chancellor...

... and interests vying for representational, historiographical, ideological, and political power—revealing Guam to be more than just a footnote to US-American empire and an intellectual footnote to the field of American studies. Guam is instead seen as an important source of indigenous culture, history, literature...

... leading to ambiguities in legal protection—endangering the rights and well-being of detainees—as well as promoting uncertain government accountability and nebulous limits to the authority of surrogate jailers. immigrant detention deportation incarceration privatization racialization...

...Revolutionary Currents The network of caciques-apoderados (cacique legal representatives) sought to defend the lands of Indian communities threatened by the expansion of haciendas after the liberal agrarian legislation of 1866 and 1874 (see part V). This network emerged in five of the nine...

...Media Frames This chapter analyzes the author's dramatic story of pitching an article investigating the media coverage and complex politics of a highly publicized legal case in Michigan against a physician for performing female genital cutting (FGC). The case coincided with the introduction...

...Pachakuti? Evo Morales was born in 1959 in a small Aymara community in the department of Oruro, where he herded llamas as a child. He studied Spanish for the first time during a period of months with his family in Argentina when he was six years old. He attended high school and played trumpet...