Feminism Unmodified

Discourses on Life and Law

Catharine A. MacKinnon

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$36.50 • £29.95 • €33.00

ISBN 9780674298743

Publication Date: 01/01/1988

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332 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Introduction: The Art of the Impossible
I. Approaches
- 1. Not by Law Alone: From a Debate with Phyllis Schlafly
- 2. Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination
- 3. Desire and Power
- 4. Whose Culture? A Case Note on Martinez v. Santa Clara Pueblo
- 5. On Exceptionality: Women as Women in Law
II. Applications
- 6. A Rally against Rape
- 7. Sex and Violence: A Perspective
- 8. Privacy v. Equality: Beyond Roe v. Wade
- 9. Sexual Harassment: Its First Decade in Court
- 10. Women, Self-Possession, and Sport
III. Pornography
- 11. Linda’s Life and Andrea’s Work
- 12. “More Than Simply a Magazine”: Playboy’s Money
- 13. Not a Moral Issue
- 14. Francis Biddle’s Sister: Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech
- 15. On Collaboration
- 16. The Sexual Politics of the First Amendment
Afterword
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Awards & Accolades

Catharine MacKinnon Is Winner of the 2014 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award, Association of American Law Schools Section on Women in Legal Education

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