Hirsch's first book, Pronouncing and Persevering, focused on men's and women's language in coastal
Kenyan courts. She demonstrated how women's language in court was influencing social change there, because the courts allowed prototypical women's stories to be heard in a new way. She uses detailed language analysis to show this, drawing on
linguistic anthropology.[4]
Her second book In Moment of Greatest Calamity, uses linguistic anthropological analysis but also first-person experience to describe her experience as the widow of a victim of
1998 United States embassy bombings in
Tanzania—and as a participant and observer of the subsequent trial of the suspected bombers.[5] It won the 2007 Herbert Jacobs Book Prize of the Law & Society Association.[6]
She is also the coauthor, with E. Franklin Dukes, of Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia.[7]
References
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ab"Susan F. Hirsch". Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
^Hirsch, Susan-Eve; Coutin, Susan (1999). "From The Editors". PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 22 (2): vii–viii.
doi:
10.1525/pol.1999.22.2.vii.
^"Election Results". American Anthropological Association. 2007. Archived from
the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2014-08-05.
^Susan F. Hirsch (1998). Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court. University of Chicago Press. Reviews:
John R. Bowen, "Law and Social Norms in the Comparative Study of Islam", American Anthropologist,
JSTOR681843
Allan Christelow, Africa: Journal of the International African Institute,
JSTOR1160825
Barbara M. Cooper, "Swahili-Speaking Women in Court", The Journal of African History,
JSTOR183649
Anne Griffiths, "Remaking Law: Gender, Ethnography, and Legal Discourse", Law & Society Review,
JSTOR3185411
Anne Hellum, "Human Rights and Gender Relations in Postcolonial Africa: Options and Limits for the Subjects of Legal Pluralism", Law & Social Inquiry,
JSTOR828993
Katherine E. Hoffman, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology,
JSTOR4169039
Joel Kuipers, Political and Legal Anthropology Review,
JSTOR24510876
Beverly B. Mack, African Studies Review,
JSTOR525024
William P. Murphy, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute,
JSTOR3134502
Beverly Stoeltje, American Ethnologist,
JSTOR647322
Joan Vincent, The International Journal of African Historical Studies,
JSTOR220471
^Susan F. Hirsch (2006). In the Moment of Greatest Calamity: Terrorism, Grief, and a Victim's Quest for Justice. Princeton University Press. Reviews:
Claudia Fonseca, Law & Society Review,
JSTOR4623402
Joseph Margulies, Political and Legal Anthropology Review,
JSTOR24497327
^"Awards". Law & Society Association. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
^Susan F. Hirsch and E. Franklin Dukes (2014). Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia: Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict. Ohio University Press. Reviews:
Steve Gardner, Mining History Association Journal,
[1]
David Graham Henderson, Environmental Values,
JSTOR44075169