1st Edition
Embodiment and Legal Theory Law in Fifty Shades of Grey
By Kirsty Duncanson
Copyright 2025
136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book addresses the importance of the body in legal theory, through an analysis of the film Fifty Shades of Grey .
As physical beings, we experience law in sensations of outrage when it is applied unethically, righteousness when it finds justice, and joy when it establishes partnerships in marriage. Our bodies feel and know law. In Embodiment and Legal Theory, it is argued that our... Read more
1. Prelude 2. Introduction 3. Interlude – Twilight Delight 4. Reader Agency as Philosophy 5. Interlude – The Scene 6. First Reading: The Frisson of Sexual Agency 7. Second Reading: The Discomforts of Subordination 8. Interlude – Why Am I Crying? 9. Third Reading 1: Legal Sensations between Orgasms 10. Third Reading 2: Doing Jurisprudence with Your Body 11. Postlude – Embodied Legal Philosophy Beyond the Cinema and Jurisprudential Sex
Biography
Kirsty Duncanson is Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University, Melbourne.
