Where Is Your Body?: And Other Essays on Race, Gender, and the Law
by Mari J. Matsuda
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Author: Mari J. MatsudaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-11-28
ISBN: 0807067814
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Beacon Press
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Book Review: provocative exploration, beautifully written prose
Summary: 5 Stars
in this volume, mari matusda continues her exploration of the intersection of race and gender, and how american society makes laws to both control and react to issues of identity. the work, written in very accessible first person narrative, contains so many poignant, simply stated recountings, that you feel as if you and your closest friend are talking about your most initimate thoughts and secrets. highly recommended for anyone interested in how today's laws, today's people feel and interrelate around these touchy topics.not just for scholars. the words are easily accessible to anyone who has ever had a harsh word thrown at them or witnessed any kind of abusive behavior.
Summary of Where Is Your Body?: And Other Essays on Race, Gender, and the Law
In Where Is Your Body? pioneering legal scholar Mari J. Matsuda offers a strikingly insightful look at how our collective experiences of race, class, and gender inform our understanding of law and shape our vision of a more just society.A Japanese American law professor who asks trenchant questions about gender and ethnic identity, Mari Matsuda injects messy reality into complex legal and social doctrines. The title essay in this rousing, incisive collection celebrates the American civil rights protesters who challenged segregation. Among those who laid their bodies on the line, Matsuda hails an earnest group of middle-class black schoolteachers who risked jail by registering to vote. "They are old women now," she writes, "full of peace, I imagine, knowing as they do that they stood tall in a moment of history making." Initially cast as lectures, papers, and speeches, her words have poetic lilt and immediacy. She relishes unpopular, sometimes contradictory positions, wading into the fray on political correctness (she applauds it) and racist speech (she's willing to ban it). Now, says Matsuda, "it is time to hear our own voices, to silence the ones that say 'stop acting your color.' This is the privilege we earned from generations before who made wise choices. They survived so we could flourish, so we could speak up, act up, do right, with our colors flying."
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