Law and mourning / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey.
"[This book] brings together a distinguished group of scholars to explore the many and complex ways that law both regulates and gives meaning to our experience of loss. The essays in this volume illuminate how law helps us to absorb and contend with loss and its reverberations, channeling the p...
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Amherst [Massachusetts] :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.
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Table of Contents:
- Law and mourning: an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas
- Mourning in America : what's law got to do with it? / Ray D. Madoff
- The mourning after : posthumous sperm retrieval and the new laws of mourning / Shai J. Lavi
- To weep Irish : keening and the law / Andrea Brady
- Listening within the "grief of distortions" / Ann Pellegrini
- Psychoanalysis, mourning, and the law : Schreber's paranoia as crisis of judging / Mark Sanders
- Does mourning become the law? : commodity fetishism and political contestation / Catherine Kellogg.