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Women's lives, men's laws / Catharine A. MacKinnon.
LIBRA KF478 .M26 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacKinnon, Catharine A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Women.
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
- United States.
- Women--United States--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Sex role--United States.
- Sex role.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 558 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- Over the past twenty-five years, no one has been more instrumental than Catharine MacKinnon in making equal rights real for women. As Peter Jennings once put it, more than anyone else in legal studies, she "has made it easier for other women to seek justice." This collection, the first since MacKinnon's celebrated Feminism Unmodified appeared in 1987, brings together previously uncollected and unpublished work in the national arena from 1980 to the present, defining her clear, coherent, consistent approach to reframing the laws of men on the basis of the lives of women.
- By making visible the deep gender bias of existing law, MacKinnon has recast legal debate and action on issues of sex discrimination, sexual abuse, prostitution, pornography, and racism. The essays in this volume document and illuminate some of the momentous and ongoing changes to which this work contributes; the recognition of sexual harassment, rape, and battering as claims for sexual discrimination; the redefinition of rape in terms of women's actual experience of sexual violation; and the reframing of the pornography debate around harm rather than morality. The perspectives in these essays have played an essential part in changing American law and remain fundamental to the project of building a sex-equal future.
- Contents:
- Introduction : realizing law
- Unthinking ERA thinking
- From practice to theory, or what is a white woman anyway?
- Law in the everyday life of women
- Toward a new theory of equality
- Law's stories as reality and politics
- "Freedom from unreal loyalties" : on fidelity in constitutional interpretation
- What Brown v. Board of Education should have said
- Keeping it real : on anti-"essentialism"
- Of mice and men : a fragment on animal rights
- The power to change
- Sexual harassment : the first five years
- Reflections on sex equality under law
- Prostitution and civil rights
- The logic of experience : the development of sexual harassment law
- On accountability for sexual harassment
- Beyond moralism : directions in sexual harassment law
- Disputing male sovereignty : on United States v. Morrison
- Unequal sex : a sex equality approach to sexual assault
- Sex, lies, and psychotherapy
- Liberalism and the death of feminism
- Does sexuality have a history?
- Speaking truth to power
- Mediating reality
- Civil rights against pornography
- Pornography as defamation and discrimination
- Pornography left and right
- From silence to silence : violence against women in America
- Vindication and resistance
- The roar on the other side of silence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [375]-535) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674015401
- OCLC:
- 55494875
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