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Cavendish Publishing

Romancing the Tomes: Popular culture, law and feminism edited by Margaret Thornton

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April 2003, no. 250
Kristie Dunn reviews 'Romancing the Tomes: Popular culture, law and feminism' edited by Margaret Thornton

What exactly is popular culture? Does Big Brother really pose an inherent challenge to law? And what connection does the regulation of cyberpornography have with the film Pretty Woman? These are some of the questions I was left with after reading Romancing the Tomes, a cross-disciplinary collection of conference papers exploring the ‘uneasy relationship’ between law and popular culture from a feminist perspective.

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