Are Women Human?

And Other International Dialogues

Catharine A. MacKinnon

    Introduction: Women's Status, Men's States

    I. THEORY VERSUS REALITY

    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

    II. STRUGGLES WITHIN STATES

    7. Making Sex Equality Real

    8. Misogyny's Cold Heart

    9. On Sex and Violence: Introducing the Antipornography Ordinance in Sweden

    10. Nationbuilding in Canada

    11. Equality Remade: Violence against Women

    12. Pornography's Empire

    13. Sex Equality under the Constitution of India: Problems, Prospects, and "Personal Laws"

    III. THROUGH THE BOSNIAN LENS

    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

    IV. ON THE CUTTING EDGE

    23. Defining Rape Internationally: A Commentary on Akayesu

    24. Pornography as Trafficking

    25. Women's September 11th: Rethinking the International Law of Conflict

    Notes

    Index

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Catharine A. MacKinnon is Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.