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Are women human? : and other international dialogues / Catharine A. MacKinnon.
- Title
- Are women human? : and other international dialogues / Catharine A. MacKinnon.
- Author
- MacKinnon, Catharine A.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
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- Description
- x, 419 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Exposing the consequences and significance of the systematic maltreatment of women, and its systemic condonation, this book takes us into the heart of the international law of conflict to ask - and reveal - why the international community can rally against terrorists' violence, but not against violence against women.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-405) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : women's status, men's states -- 1. On torture -- 2. Human rights and global violence against women -- 3. Theory is not a luxury -- 4. Are women human? -- 5. Postmodernism and human rights -- 6. The promise of CEDAW's optional protocol -- 7. Making sex equality real - - 8. Nationbuilding in Canada -- 9. Misogyny's cold heart -- 10. On sex and violence : introducing the antipornography civil rights law in Sweden -- 11. Equality remade : violence against women -- 12. Pornography's empire -- 13. Sex equality under the constitution of India : problems, prospects, and "personal laws" -- 14. Crimes of war, crimes of peace -- 15. Turning rape into pornography : postmodern genocide -- 16. Rape as nationbuilding -- 17. From Auschwitz to Omarska, Nuremberg to The Hague -- 18. Rape, genocide, and women's human rights -- 19. Gender-based crimes in humanitarian law -- 20. War crimes remedies at the national level -- 21. Collective harms under the alien tort statute : a cautionary note on class actions -- 22. Genocide's sexuality -- 23. Defining rape internationally : a comment on Akayesu --^
- 24. Pornography as trafficking -- 25. Women's September 11th : rethinking the international law of conflict.
- ISBN
- 0674021878 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2005044747
- OCLC
- 62085505
- SCSB-10371662
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library