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EROTIC JUSTICE
Laurie Taylor is joined by Ratna Kapur, Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research in New Delhi, India and the author of 'Erotic Justice: Law and the New Politics of Postcolonialism'.
In her book Ratna Kapur argues that anti-trafficking strategies and laws have meant women from developing countries are increasingly limited in their freedom to move, are under greater surveillance, and are ever more constrained by regressive views on sexual integrity and women's central place in the home.
THE MYTH OF THE ENGLISH HIGHWAYMAN
A recent historical account of highwayman Dick Turpin shows that the myth of the gallant handsome dandy who charmed gentle women and robbed only the wealthy and corrupt was greatly at odds with the real Dick Turpin who was a pock-marked vicious thug.
Laurie Taylor examines the appeal of the highwayman and gentleman criminal with Professor James Sharpe, author of Dick Turpin - The Myth of the English Highwayman and Stephen Knight, Distinguished Research Professor in English Literature at Cardiff University and author of Robin Hood - A Mythic Biography.
Additional information:
Ratna Kapur
Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research in New Delhi, India
Erotic Justice: Law and the New Politics of Postcolonialism
Publisher: The Glasshouse Press
ISBN: 1904385249
Professor James Sharpe
Professor of History at York University and leading social historian of seventeenth and eighteenth century Britain
and a founder member of the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice
DickTurpin - The Myth of the English Highwayman
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1 86197 418 3
Professor Stephen Knight
Distinguished Research Professor in English Literature at Cardiff University
Robin Hood - A Mythic Biography
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801438853
Crime Fiction, 1800-2000: Detection, Death, Diversity
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 0333791797
Music
Gallant DickTurpin-
track 5
Performer: George Formby
CD title: George Formby - It's turned out nice again
CD label: Empress RAJCD 878
The Ballad of DickTurpin
Side 2 Track 5
Performers: Freddie and the Dreamers
LP title: Freddie and The Dreamers in Disneyland
LP label: Columbia
Poem: The Highwayman
by Alfred Noyes
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