Susan Burgess

The Founding Fathers, Pop Culture, and Constitutional Law (eBook, ePUB)

Who's Your Daddy?

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Applying innovative interpretive strategies drawn from cultural studies, this book considers the perennial question of law and politics: what role do the founding fathers play in legitimizing contemporary judicial review? Susan Burgess uses narrative analysis, popular culture, parody, and queer theory to better understand and to reconstitute the traditional relationship between fatherhood and judicial review. Unlike traditional, top-down public law analyses that focus on elite decision making by courts, legislatures, or executives, this volume explores the representation of law and legitimacy in various sites of popular culture. To this end, soap operas, romance novels, tabloid newspapers, reality television, and coming out narratives provide alternative ways to understand the relationship between paternal power and law from the bottom up. In this manner, constitutional discourse can begin to be transformed from a dreary parsing of scholarly and juristic argot into a vibrant discussion with points of access and understanding for all.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317031413
• Artikelnr.: 44863617

Autorenporträt

Susan Burgess is Professor of Political Science, and Professor of Women's Studies at Ohio University, USA. She has written widely on constitutional theory, as well as gender issues from a legal, and political perspective.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Series editor's preface
Introduction
A fine romance? Judicial restraint as a romance novel
Who's your Daddy? Judicial activism as a soap opera
Space aliens save country from ruin? Critical race theory as tabloid science fiction
Did the Supreme Court come out in Bush v. Gore? The instability of judicial identity
The drama of contemporary constitutional discourse: Lawrence v. Texas as a makeover of Bowers v. Hardwick
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.