Butterfly, the Bride: Essays on Law, Narrative, and the Family

Index

Index Abel, Richard, 129 Abortion and Divorce in Western Law (Glendon), 119-22 Abulia, 166 Anthony, Susan B., 30 Areen, Judith, 122 Arendt, Hannah, 104 Arnold, Thurman, 126 Arrangements, nonmarital, 65 Ashe, Marie, 98, 105-6 Atiyah, Patrick, 121 Autonomy: children's rights-in-trust, 138-39; individual, 67, 82 Balfour v. Balfour (1919), 67 Ball, Milner, 18 Bargains: marital and nonmarital, 59; in marriage contract, 60 Bartlett, 98 Bates, A., 124-25 Beloved (Morrison), 110-11 Benedict, Ruth, 91 Bentham, Jeremy, 131-32 Ben Zoma, 167 Berger, Brigitte, 28-29 Berger, Peter, 28-29 Bishop, Joel P., 27, 63 Blackmun, Harry, 113-14 Black Rain (Ibuse), 19 Blake, Nelson, 35-36 Blood Relatives (McBain), 127 Boccaccio, Giovanni, 111 Bodenheimer, Brigitte, 29 Boyer, Paul, 157 Bradwell v. Illinois (1872),66, 158 Brave New World, 109 Brennan, William, 113-14 Brod,Max,75-76, 139, 140 Brookner, Anita, 64 Bushnell, Horace, 132 Butterfly, the: beauty of, 1-2; in caterpillar stage, 1-2; as life, 2; as symbol of the soul, 1; in Tolkien's poem, 3 Butterfly (Cho-Cho-San, Madame Butterfly), 2-3, 25-26, 149-50 Call the Next Witness (Mason), 127 Candide (Bernstein), 124 Canetti, Elias, 106 Chapman, Eunice 17-18 Childhood and Society (Erikson), 143-44 Children: Butterfly's protection of her son, 95; in core meaning of family, 132; definition of, 141; Medea's murder of her, 110; in Medea's story, 95-102; psychological injury in childhood, 102-7; rights held in trust for, 138-39; role of the state in relation to, 131-32, 145-47 Cicero, 2 Cioran, E. M., 166 Cirlot, Juan Eduardo, 2 Civilization and its Discontents (Freud), 145 Clive, E. M., 129 Coen, Ethan, 153 233 234 Cohabitation: cited in Marvin v. Marvin , 123-24; enforcement of contracts of, 123 Cohen, J., 124-25 Comeback (Francis), 65 Conjugal rights, restitution of, 70 Consent: legal treatment of, 15; to sexual intercourse, 16; treatment in some feminist jurisprudence, 15-16 Contracts (see also Marriage): default, 59-66; differences of marriage contracts from other, 47-48; doctrine of implied, 59; enforcement of, 66-72,70-71; idea of, 5; Isaacs's proposals, 53-54; meaning of, 58-59; relational, 49; religious law to illustrate terms of, 69; remedy for breach of, 70; role of the state in, 48; in terms of rights, 49; unenforceable , 68; work of Llewellyn in, 52-53,56-57,67 Cott, Nancy F., 29, 30, 33, 36 Cover, Robert, 4-5, 156-57 Culture: impact on men, 16; molding of women by, 16-17 de Beauvoir, Simone, 16 De Legibus (Cicero), 2 de Pizan, Christine, 97, 102 DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department ofSocial Services (1989), 112-15 Diaries (Kafka), 79 Dicey, Albert V., 104 Divorce: Anglo-American tradition, 31; of Christianity, 31; collusive and consensual, 32; as compliment to modern marriage ideal, 29; early American records of, 33-34; history of, 32-33; Jewish law of conditional , 21-22; legislative nineteenth -century, 34-36; Llewellyn's work on, 54-57; marital dissolution in no-fault, 52; of Miriam Donaven, 41; narrative of fictional, 43-44; nineteenth-century judicial, 31-32; INDEX nineteenth-century legislative, 31-32,34-36; no-fault, 24, 32, 39, 52, 71; permissible, 37; remedies in context of, 69-70; in Roman Empire, 31; Stanton's narrative related to, 36-37; subgroup thinking about, 22; true reasons for, 39; utility of narrative in context of, 21 Divorce law: Cho-Cho-San's interpretation , 26; development of, 32; of Japan, 117-18; Stanton's proposal for, 37 Dr. Thorne (Trollope), 62-63 Domestic arrangements: contractual menu for, 69; contractual nature of, 72; family law (Kafka), 84-86; fictional negotiations, 59-66; understandings related to, 59-66 Domestic life. See Family, the Donaven, Miriam, 18, 40 Easterling, 112 Ehrenreich, Barbara, 128-29 Ehrlich, Eugen, 6 Ellman, Ira, 146-47 Elshtain, Jean Bethke, 15-16, 146 Embry, Jessie L., 16 Empathy, as goal of narrative, 18 Entitlement, related to contract remedy, 71 Erikson, Erik, 143-44 "Errantry" (Tolkien), 3 Essay Concerning Certain False Principles (Locke), 132 European Convention on Human Rights, 129-30 Everson v. Board ofEducation (1947), 123 Family, the: as basis for marriage contract, 68; early twentieth-century family life, 29; history in England of, 60; as home of favoritism, 142; importance in Japan, 73-74; injustices in family life, 141-43; INDEX legal levels in Kafka's, 82--93; legal world of, 23...