Feminism Unmodified

Author : Catharine A. MacKinnon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674298748

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Feminism Unmodified by Catharine A. MacKinnon Pdf

"Catharine A. MacKinnon, noted feminist and legal scholar, explores and develops her original theories and practical proposals on sexual politics and law. These discourses, originally delivered as speeches, have been brilliantly woven into a book that retains all the spontaneity and accessibility of a live presentation. Through these engaged works on issues such as rape, abortion, athletics, sexual harassment, and pornography, MacKinnon seeks feminism on its own terms, unconstrained by the limits of prior traditions. She argues that viewing gender as a matter of sameness and difference--as virtually all existing theory and law have done--covers up the reality of gender, which is a system of social hierarchy, an imposed inequality of power"--Back cover.

Author : Catharine A. MacKinnon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:49015001106575

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Feminism Unmodified by Catharine A. MacKinnon Pdf

"Catharine A. MacKinnon, noted feminist and legal scholar, explores and develops her original theories and practical proposals on sexual politics and law. These discourses, originally delivered as speeches, have been brilliantly woven into a book that retains all the spontaneity and accessibility of a live presentation. Through these engaged works on issues such as rape, abortion, athletics, sexual harassment, and pornography, MacKinnon seeks feminism on its own terms, unconstrained by the limits of prior traditions. She argues that viewing gender as a matter of sameness and difference--as virtually all existing theory and law have done--covers up the reality of gender, which is a system of social hierarchy, an imposed inequality of power"--Back cover.

Author : Catharine A. MacKinnon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674024060

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Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws by Catharine A. MacKinnon Pdf

'Women's Lives, Men's Laws' collects papers by MacKinnon from 1980 to the present, in which she discusses the deep gender bias of American law and the changes to legislation on sexual harassment, rape and battering, to which she has contributed.

Author : Mary Ann Glendon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674001613

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Abortion and Divorce in Western Law by Mary Ann Glendon Pdf

This book is about two subjects which have been discussed extensively and these are abortion and divorce. The Author shows both side of argument, demand for abortion and no abortion at all.

Author : Catharine A. MacKinnon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 0674896467

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Toward a Feminist Theory of the State by Catharine A. MacKinnon Pdf

Presents the author's analysis of politics, sexuality and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory of gender centred on sexual subordination and applies it to the State.

Author : Dianna Taylor,Karen Vintges
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0252029275

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Feminism and the Final Foucault by Dianna Taylor,Karen Vintges Pdf

Feminism and the Final Foucault is the first systematic offering of contemporary, international feminist perspectives on the later work of philosopher Michel Foucault. Rather than simply debating the merits or limitations of Foucault's later work, the essays in this collection examine women's historical self-practices, conceive of feminism as a shared ethos, and consider the political significance of this conceptualization in order to elucidate, experiment with, and put into practice the conceptual "tools" that Foucault offers for feminist ethics and politics. The volume illustrates the ways in which Foucault's later thinking on ethics as "care of the self" can reintroduce a number of issues and themes that feminists jettisoned in the wake of postmodernism, including consciousness raising, feminist therapy, the subject woman, identity politics, and feminist agency. Taken as a whole, the diversity of feminist viewpoints presented provide important new insights into "the final Foucault," and thus serve as a productive intervention in current Foucault scholarship.

Author : Holly Lawford-Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780198863885

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Gender-Critical Feminism by Holly Lawford-Smith Pdf

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-287) and index.

Author : Andrea Dworkin
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786722365

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Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin Pdf

Andrea Dworkin, once called “Feminism's Malcolm X,” has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed-but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals, and the ferocity of her intellect have spurred the arguments and activism of two generations of feminists. Now the book that she's best known for-in which she provoked the argument that ultimately split apart the feminist movement-is being reissued for the young women and men of the twenty-first century. Intercourse enraged as many readers as it inspired when it was first published in 1987. In it, Dworkin argues that in a male supremacist society, sex between men and women constitutes a central part of women's subordination to men. (This argument was quickly-and falsely-simplified to “all sex is rape” in the public arena, adding fire to Dworkin's already radical persona.) In her introduction to this twentieth-anniversary edition of Intercourse, Ariel Levy, the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs, discusses the circumstances of Dworkin's untimely death in the spring of 2005, and the enormous impact of her life and work. Dworkin's argument, she points out, is the stickiest question of feminism: Can a woman fight the power when he shares her bed?

Author : Catharine A. MacKinnon
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674237667

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Butterfly Politics by Catharine A. MacKinnon Pdf

“Sometimes ideas change the world. This astonishing, miraculous, shattering, inspiring book captures the origins and the arc of the movement for sex equality. It’s a book whose time has come—always, but perhaps now more than ever.” —Cass Sunstein, coauthor of Nudge Under certain conditions, small simple actions can produce large and complex “butterfly effects.” Butterfly Politics shows how Catharine A. MacKinnon turned discrimination law into an effective tool against sexual abuse—grounding and predicting the worldwide #MeToo movement—and proposes concrete steps that could have further butterfly effects on women’s rights. Thirty years after she won the U.S. Supreme Court case establishing sexual harassment as illegal, this timely collection of her previously unpublished interventions on consent, rape, and the politics of gender equality captures in action the creative and transformative activism of an icon. “MacKinnon adapts a concept from chaos theory in which the tiny motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away. Under the right conditions, she posits, small actions can produce major social transformations.” —New York Times “MacKinnon [is] radical, passionate, incorruptible and a beautiful literary stylist... Butterfly Politics is a devastating salvo fired in the gender wars... This book has a single overriding aim: to effect global change in the pursuit of equality.” —The Australian “Sexual Harassment of Working Women was a revelation. It showed how this anti-discrimination law—Title VII—could be used as a tool... It was the beginning of a field that didn’t exist until then.” —U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Author : Arthur S. Leonard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1187 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135755096

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Sexuality and the Law by Arthur S. Leonard Pdf

First Published in 1993. Sexuality and the Law: An Encyclopedia of Major Legal Cases is the third volume to appear in the American Law and Society series. Consistent with the philosophy of the series, the more than 100 essay/entries in Sexuality and the Law deal with important legal issues without descending into jargon or lawyer's Latin. This book describes more than one hundred significant court decisions concerning sexual ity.

Author : Linda J. Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0231912641

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Gender and History by Linda J. Nicholson Pdf

Author : Catharine A. MacKinnon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674504059

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Only Words by Catharine A. MacKinnon Pdf

When is rape not a crime? When it's pornography--or so First Amendment law seems to say: in film, a rape becomes "free speech." Pornography, Catharine MacKinnon contends, is neither speech nor free. Pornography, racial and sexual harassment, and hate speech are acts of intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination, and should be legally treated as such. Only Words is a powerful indictment of a legal system at odds with itself, its First Amendment promoting the very inequalities its Fourteenth Amendment is supposed to end. In the bold and compelling style that has made her one of our most provocative legal critics, MacKinnon depicts a society caught in a vicious hypocrisy. Words that offer bribes or fix prices or segregate facilities are treated by law as acts, but words and pictures that victimize and target on the basis of race and sex are not. Pornography--an act of sexual domination reproduced in the viewing--is protected by law in the name of "the free and open exchange of ideas." But the proper concern of law, MacKinnon says, is not what speech says, but what it does. What the "speech" of pornography and of racial and sexual harassment and hate propaganda does is promote and enact the power of one social group over another. Cutting with surgical deftness through cases of harassment in the workplace and on college campuses, through First Amendment cases involving Nazis, Klansmen, and pornographers, MacKinnon shows that as long as discriminatory practices are protected as free speech, equality will be only a word.

Author : David Kirp,Mark Yudof,Marlene Franks Strong
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226437651

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Gender Justice by David Kirp,Mark Yudof,Marlene Franks Strong Pdf

Tracing the way various public policies have evolved, David L. Kirp, Mark G. Yudof, and Marlene Strong Franks find that the profusion of legislation and court decisions masks an uncertain and problematic sense of what gender-based justice means. They show that even policies not ostensibly concerned with gender—from tax codes to health benefits—have a significant effect on sexual equality. They argue that whether or not it intends to do so, our government is setting gender policies. Pointing out that individual autonomy is the essential component of a just society, they endorse a policy that encourages choice rather than one that promotes particular outcomes.

Author : Elizabeth Hackett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114595635

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Theorizing Feminisms by Elizabeth Hackett Pdf

Providing a survey of approaches to theoretical issues raised by the quest for gender justice, this text is for use in interdisciplinary feminist theory courses. With an aim to provide an overview of feminist responses to, including a critique of these questions, its organising questions are: What is sexist oppression? What must be done about it?

Author : Judith Grant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136651052

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Fundamental Feminism by Judith Grant Pdf

In Fundamental Feminism, Judith Grant explores the evolution of feminist theory as well as the state of today's feminist thought. Pointing to the main problems within feminism, Grant calls for a substantial revision of the core concepts responsible for shaping today's feminist theory. Grant identifies and critiques three core concepts in feminist theory--"woman," "experience," and "personal politics"--from their origins in pamphlets and writings in the early women's liberation movement to their current construction in feminist thought. She connects a number of key debates in feminism today to the longstanding influence of these core assumptions. These debates include the hegemony of the white female perspective, the tension between anti-pornography and pro-sex feminists, and the challenges presented by postmodernism. Fundamental Feminism is provocative reading for anyone interested in the future of feminist theory and the power of feminist politics.