Contested states : law, hegemony, and resistance /
Lazarus-Black, Mindie.
Hirsch, Susan F.
New York ; London : Routledge,
1994.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Courts as performances: domestic violence hearings in a Hawai'i family court / Sally Engle Merry -- Local legal hegemony in the Tongan magistrate's court: how sisters fare better than wives / Susan U. Philips -- Law's patriarchy in India / Erin P. Moore -- On law and hegemonic moments: looking behind the law in early modern Uganda / Joan Vincent -- "Kidstuff" and complaint: interpreting resistance in a New England court / Barbara Yngvesson -- Battling over motherhood in Philadelphia: a study of antebellum American trial courts as arenas of conflict / Michael Grossberg -- Standing at the gates of justice: women in the law courts of early-sixteenth-century Üsküdar, Istanbul / Yvonne J. Seng -- Kadhi's courts as complex sites of resistance: the state, Islam, and gender in postcolonial Kenya / Susan F. Hirsch.
When empires meet: European trade and Ottoman law / June Starr -- Slaves, masters, and magistrates: law and the politics of resistance in the British Caribbean, 1736-1834 / Mindie Lazarus-Black -- Enacting law through social practice: sanctuary as a form of resistance / Susan Bibler Coutin.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Ethnological jurisprudence.
Customary law.