Description: Exposes the methods employed by men of legal authority to retain and justify their power and privilege, through controlling the story of the legal person.
Brief description: Ngaire Naffine is Emerita Professor of Law at Adelaide, Australia.
Review Quotes:
"Ngaire Naffine's Manning the Law analyses the concept of patriarchy from the position of a professor of law, but in everyday language and in a style that is concise, direct and forceful." --Women's History Review
"Manning the Law is an indispensable companion for socio-legal scholars, legal theorists, legal historians, and all of those who desire to trouble the mundane, quotidian, and 'excessively familiar wallpaper of law' ... It is a vital call to produce richer accounts of law's conditions, forms, and histories of exclusion." --Journal of Law and Society