judith grant

publications

books | book chapters and journal articles | book reviews & essays | misc.

BOOKS

 

D/M: Dworkin, MacKinnon and Contemporary Feminist Thought, forthcoming, University of Illinois Press, fall 2008.

Fundamental Feminism: Contesting the Core Concepts of Feminist Theory, (Routledge, 1993).


Articles and Book Chapters

"Boys Interrupted: The Male Bonding in Metallica's Some Kind of Monster," in Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery , ed., William Irwin, The Blackwell Philosophy and PopCulture Series (Blackwell, 2007).

“Andrea Dworkin and the Social Construction of Gender: A Retrospective,” Signs: A Journal of Women, Culture and Society, vol. 31, no. 4, Summer 2006

“Gender in the Early Marx: the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844,” Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2005, Rethinking Marxism.

“Assault Under Color of Authority: Police Corruption as Norm in LAPD Rampart Scandal and Popular Films,” New Political Science, Volume 25, Number 3 (September 2003), pp. 383-403.

Essay, “Uncle Sam or Big Brother,” Chronicle of Higher Education, April 2003.

“Crime and Popular Culture,” 1998, Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXII, Numbers 1,2,3, 1998.

“Does the Evidence Speak for Itself?” with Eric Oifer,
The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXII, Numbers 1,2,3, 1998.

Article, “Trust No One: Conspiracy Theory, Paranoia and
Alien Abductions
,” Undercurrent, Spring 1998, volume 6,

"Lawyers As Superheroes: The Firm, The Client and the Pelican Brief,” University of San Francisco Law Review, Volume 30, no. 4, fall, 1997.

"Bring the Noise: Hypermasculinity and the Power to Pose in
Heavy Metal and Cross-over Rap," Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume xxvii, number 2, fall 1996.

"Dworkin and Sade: The Erotic Victim," Strategies: A Journal
of Theory, Culture and Politics, Volume 8, winter 1995/1996

"Intimate Work: The Regulation of Female Sexuality and
Reproduction," USC Journal of Law and Women's Studies, 1992.

"Prime Time Crime: Television Portrayals of the Law,” Journal of American Culture, January 1992.

"I Feel Therefore I Am: A Critique of Female Experience as the Basis for a Feminist Epistemology," Women and Politics, Vol. 7, no. 3, Fall 1987.

"The Turn to Culture in Marxism," in Cultural Studies and Political Theory, Jodi Dean, ed., Cornell University Press, 2000

"Morality and Liberal Legal Culture: Woody Allen's, Crimes
and Misdemeanors," in John Denvir ed., Legal Reelism: The
Hollywood Movie As Legal Text, University of Illinois Press, 1996

"The New Family and the Old Ideology," in Nan Bauer Maglin and Nancy Schniedewind, eds., Women and Stepfamilies: Voices of Anger, Voices of Love, Temple University Press, 1988.

"I Feel Therefore I Am: A Critique of Female Experience as
the Basis for a Feminist Epistemology," Reprinted in Maria Falco, ed., Feminism and Epistemology: Approaches to Research in Women and Politics (New York: Haworth Press, 1987).

 

MISCELLANEOUS WRITING

Ongoing writing in the on-line zine “Picturing Justice” including:
“The Shield,” FX’s Television show and police violence, Picturing Justice featured article, May 2002.
“Gangs of New York,” in Picturing Justice, www.usfca.edu/pj
“The Rainmaker,” for Picturing Justice, www.usfca.edu/pj
“Jackie Brown,” Picturing Justice, www.usfca.edu/pj Contributing editor, The Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, Lorraine Code, editor, Routledge, 2000
“Snake Eyes,” Picturing Justice, www.usfca.edu/pj
Commentary, “One Feminist’s Interpretation of Monica Lewinsky,” Newsletter, Center for Feminist Research, May, 1999.
“Movie Skirts Real Issue of What Hustler Represents,” op ed in Los Angeles Times, February 24, 1997

 

Full CV available on request.