Research Catalog

Title

Women's lives, men's laws / Catharine A. MacKinnon.

Author

MacKinnon, Catharine A.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.

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Description

viii, 558 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"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the first since MacKinnon's celebrated Feminism Unmodified appeared in 1987, brings together previously uncollected and unpublished work in the national arena from 1980 to the present, defining her clear, coherent, consistent approach to reframing the laws of men on the basis of the lives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."--Jacket.

Subject

• Sex role > United States
• Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
• Women > United States > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-535) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0674015401 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004052086

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library