Courting Failure: Women and the Law in Twentieth-Century Literature

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Adam’s Rib, 28, 172, 174, 190–201, 216, 217, 221 Adams, Nehemiah, 87 Adelberg, Ellen, 14, 28; Too Few to Count: Canadian Women in Conflict with the Law, 165 Adler, Amy, 123 African American civil rights groups, 61 African American culture, 57 African American genre, 246n2 African American law professor, 56 African American male, 78 African American mothers, 65, 106. See also black mothers African American women, 25, 211; as property, 55–103 African American writers, 12, 58, 74 Allen, Hilary, 236 Ally McBeal, 28, 173, 174, 189, 201, 208–23, 266n62 American Psychiatric Association, 121 American Psychological Association, 121 Anderson, Donna, 111 APA Working Group on the Investigation of Memories of Childhood Abuse, 121 Aristodemou, Maria, 12, 21, 57, 76, 77, 83, 84, 102, 152, 204, 238 Ashe, Marie, 12, 74, 112 Asimow, Michael, 189 Associated Press, 109, 118 Aston, Elaine, 166 Atwood, Margaret, 25, 31, 32, 36–48, 53, 54, 58, 104, 227, 246n2; Alias Grace, 25, 31, 32, 33, 36–48, 53; The Handmaid’s Tale, 104, 246n2 authorial intentionality, 5, 7, 67 Ayres, Susan, 118–19, 134 Baker, Houston A., Jr., 59 Baker, Karla Faye, 17 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 86 Barfoot, Joan: Critical Injuries, 29, 223, 229–36 Barnett, Pamela E., 79 Baron, Jane B., 4, 12, 45, 96, 102 Bartky, Sandra Lee, 31, 32, 35, 54 Basic Instinct, 179 Basilio, Miriam, 178 battered wife syndrome, 155 battered woman’s syndrome, 146 Baum, Kathleen Kelly, 211, 214, 221 Baxter, Meredith, 176, 177 Becker, Susanne, 42 Bell, Bernard W., 55, 80; The AfroAmerican Novel and Its Tradition, 55 Bellows, Gil, 209 Bennington, Annette, 29; Beyond Portia: Women, Law, and Literature in the United States, 29, 223 Bentham, Jeremy, 31, 37–38, 48, 53, 150; The Panopticon Letters, 150 Bergman, Paul, 189, 224n22 Bernardo, Paul, 226, 244n22 Best, Stephen, 58 The Betty Broderick Story, 176 Bingham, Dennis, 183, 184, 187, 188 Birch, Helen, 15, 176–77 Biressi, Anita, 40 birth mothers, 72 black child, 94. See also racially mixed children; slave children black face, 76 black females, 62 black feminists, 60 black men, 64, 79, 92, 93, 111, 113 black mothers, 64. See also African American mothers black perpetrators, 19 black slave women, 58, 80 black slaves, 63, 87, 101 black wetnurse, 100 287 Index 288 Index black women, 62, 64, 66, 83, 88, 93, 94, 103 Black Snake, 92 blacks, 10, 61, 72, 74, 81 Blassingame, John, 59 Bloody Babs, 182, 184, 185. See also Graham, Barbara (Bonnie). Bohjalian, Chris: Midwives, 27, 107, 128, 140–46 Boire, Gary, 7, 21–24 Borden, Emma, 160, 164 Borden, Lizzie, 28, 151, 160–64, 170 Born with Two Mothers, 64 Boudreau, Kristin, 75 Bourdieu, Pierre, 125, 138, 143, 144, 149 Boston Prison Discipline Society, 39 breastfeeding, 107–8, 144 Breastfeeding Bill (Scotland), 107–8 Brecht, Bertholt: The Caucasian Chalk Circle, 104 Bridgewater, Pamela, 114 Bridget Jones, 179 British False Memory Society, 121 Broderick, Betty, 176–77 Brooks, Peter, 237, 238 Broomfield, Nick, 178, 264n20; Aileen: Life And Death Of A Serial Killer, 178; Aileen Wuornos: The Selling Of A Serial Killer, 178; Overkill, 178 Butler, Judith, 150, 162 Butler, Octavia: Kindred, 62 Cahn, Naomi, 147 Callaghan, Morley, 7, 21, 24, 39; “A Wedding-Dress,” 7, 21–24 Canada, 17, 21, 25, 108, 226. See also Kingston, Ontario; Canada, Upper Canada, Upper, 37 Canadian High Commission, 241n33 Cannings, Angela, 124 Cannon, Dyan, 210 canonicity, 4, 5, 6, 7–12, 66, 67, 74, 86, 116, 154, 156, 240n23, 262n1 Carby, Hazel, 59 Cardozo, Benjamin, 2; Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, 7; “Law and Literature,” 2 Caron, Roger: Go Boy, 36 Carson, Lisa Nicole, 211 Carter, Angela, 6, 25, 31–36, 40, 53, 54, 58, 227; Nights at the Circus, 6, 25, 31–36, 44, 47, 53 Chase, Anthony, 222 Chicago, 151 Chicana mothers, 106 child abuse, 26, 109, 110, 112, 122, 123, 146, 252–53n3 child deaths, 15, 26, 81, 106, 109, 112, 123, 175, 226 child drowning, 26, 111, 116, 175 child homicides, 65, 110–18 child molesters, 131,257n84 child murderer, 16, 82, 83, 124, 226 child pornographers, 111 child sexual abuse, 27, 107, 121, 122, 133 childbirth, 18, 27, 111, 141 children’s rights, 108, 109 Chinn, Sarah E., 61, 94 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 124 Christianity, 116 A Civil Action, 172 civil rights movement, 58, 61 Clark, Sally, 124, 257n75 Class Action, 172 conjugal rights, 217 Connor, Steven, 149, 152–53 contemporary mothers, 75, 250n65 Cooper, J. California, 25, 26, 227; Family, 25, 65, 66, 69...