Secrets and Laws

Nine essays reprinted, sometimes with revisions, from law journals, some of them feminist law journals, since the middle 1990s, discuss law in terms of politics and poetry, popular culture, and prose narrative. In them, Williams (law, U. of Wales-Swansea) examines such topics as nationhood and identity in R.S. Thomas; ethics, law, and assisted suicide; legal debates taken hostage by Straw Dogs; Hardy's eternal message for attitudes to marriage and cohabitation; and medico-legal stories of female insanity in three nullity suits. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR