Review Essay: The Law and Its Bedfellows: Nation Making through the Rhetoric of US Courtrooms

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Siobhan B. Somerville, “Notes toward a Queer History of Naturalization,” American Quarterly 57 (2005): 660. 2. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage Books, 1995); Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization (New York: Vintage Books, 1998). 3. Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews & Other Writings 1972–1977, ed. Colin Gordon (New York: Pantheon, 1980), 96. 4. Marouf Hasian Jr. and Emily Plec, “Remembrance of Things Past: A Postcolonial Critique of the Human Genome Diversity Project,” in New Approaches to Rhetoric, ed. Patricia A. Sullivan and Stephen R. Goldzwig (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004), 111–27. 5. Étienne Balibar, “Is There a Neo-Racism?” in Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities, ed. Étienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein (London: Verso, 1991), 17–28. 6. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985); Gayle Rubin, “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex,” in Toward an Anthropology of Women, ed. Rayna R. Reiter (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1975), 157–210. 7. For praise of the movement, see Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activism Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998); Charlotte Bunch, “Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights,” Human Rights Quarterly 12 (1990): 486–98. For critique of the movement, see Inderpal Grewal, Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005). 8. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003). 9. Kevin Michael DeLuca and Jennifer Peeples, “From Public Sphere to Public Screen: Democracy, Activism, and the ‘Violence of Seattle,’” Critical Studies in Media Communication 19 (2002): 125–51. Additional informationNotes on contributorsSara L. McKinnonSara L. McKinnon is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison