Women's Lives, Men's Laws

Catharine A. MacKinnon

    Introduction

    I. EQUALITY RE-ENVISIONED

    Section A. Changing the World for Women

    1. To Change the World for Women

    2. Unthinking ERA Thinking

    3. From Practice to Theory, or What Is a White Woman Anyway?

    4. Law in the Everyday Life of Women

    5. Toward a New Theory of Equality

    6. Law's Stories as Reality and Politics

    7. "Freedom from Unreal Loyalties": On Fidelity in Constitutional Interpretation

    8. What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said

    9. Keeping It Real: On Anti-"Essentialism"

    10. Of Mice and Men: A Fragment on Animal Rights

    11. The Power to Change

    Section B. Sexual Abuse as Sex Discrimination

    12. Sexual Harassment: The First Five Years

    13. Reflections on Sex Equality Under Law

    14. Prostitution and Civil Rights

    15. The Logic of Experience: The Development of Sexual Harassment Law

    16. On Accountability for Sexual Harassment

    17. Beyond Moralism: Directions in Sexual Harassment Law

    18. Disputing Male Sovereignty: On United States v. Morrison

    19. A Sex Equality Approach to Sexual Assault

    II. SEXUALITY, INEQUALITY, AND SPEECH

    Section A. Theory and Practice

    20. Sex, Lies, and Psychotherapy

    21. Liberalism and the Death of Feminism

    22. Does Sexuality Have a History?

    23. Speaking Truth to Power

    24. Mediating Reality

    Section B. Pornography as Sex Discrimination

    25. Civil Rights Against Pornography

    26. Pornography as Defamation and Discrimination

    27. From Silence to Silence: Violence Against Women in America

    28. Pornography Left and Right

    29. Vindication and Resistance

    30. The Roar on the Other Side of Silence

    Notes

    Credits

    Index

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