Sexy Dressing Etc.

by Duncan Kennedy

Overview

Duncan Kennedy argues that an American radicalism is both possible and desirable. One base for radical politics is the big institutional workplace; another is popular culture—whence his emphasis on phenomena like sexy dressing. Kennedy’s aim is to wed the rebelliousness, irony, and irrationalism of cultural modernism and postmodernism to the earnestness of political correctness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674802971
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	08/11/1995
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Duncan Kennedy is Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Emeritus, at Harvard Law School.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Radical Intellectuals in American Culture and Politics, or My Talk at the Gramsci Institute

2. A Cultural Pluralist Case for Affirmative Action in Legal Academia

3. The Stakes of Law, or Hale and Foucault!

4. Sexual Abuse, Sexy Dressing, and the Eroticization of Domination

Notes

Index

Editorial Reviews

Kennedy’s book offers a dazzling one-man show with many voices. It reveals a man of the left, without a trace of puritanism or ideological correctness; a blithe and antic spirit, with a wholly serious program for critical scholars and activists of promoting freedom through small, local, practical acts of analysis, reimagination, resistance, and organization.

Robert Gordon

What these essays have in common, besides wit and provocative argument, is Kennedy’s understanding that we come to know the world based upon situational perspectives and lifestyles.

Choice

Kennedy's book offers a dazzling one-man show with many voices. It reveals a man of the left, without a trace of puritanism or ideological correctness; a blithe and antic spirit, with a wholly serious program for critical scholars and activists of promoting freedom through small, local, practical acts of analysis, reimagination, resistance, and organization.

Stanford Law School - Robert Gordon

Kennedy's book offers a dazzling one-man show with many voices. It reveals a man of the left, without a trace of puritanism or ideological correctness; a blithe and antic spirit, with a wholly serious program for critical scholars and activists of promoting freedom through small, local, practical acts of analysis, reimagination, resistance, and organization.
— Robert Gordon

Stanford Law School

Four essays, written by Kennedy (law, Harvard) for different occasions, address themes being taken up under the aegis of critical legal studies (of which Kennedy is a founder). He looks at the relationships among the rebelliousness, irony, and irrationalism of cultural modernism and postmodernism, and the earnestness of political correctness. The full title of the essay referred to in the book title is: Sexual Abuse, Sexy Dressing, and the Eroticization of Domination. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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