Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law by Catharine A. MacKinnon (Engli

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Feminism Unmodified by Catharine A. MacKinnon 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. MacKinnon offers a unique retrospective on the law of sexual harassment, which she designed and has worked for a decade to establish, and a prospectus on the law of pornography, which she proposes to change in the next ten years. Authentic in voice, sweeping in scope, startling in clarity, urgent, never compromised and often visionary, these discourses advance a new theory of sex inequality and imagine new possibilities for social change.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. She reveals a political system of male dominance and female subordination that sexualizes power for men and powerlessness for women. She analyzes the failure of organized feminism, particularly legal feminism, to alter this condition, exposing the way male supremacy gives women a survival stake in the system that destroys them. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. MacKinnon offers a unique retrospective on the law of sexual harassment, which she designed and has worked for a decade to establish, and a prospectus on the law of pornography, which she proposes to change in the next ten years. Authentic in voice, sweeping in scope, startling in clarity, urgent, never compromised and often visionary, these discourses advance a new theory of sex inequality and imagine new possibilities for social change.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. She reveals a political system of male dominance and female subordination that sexualizes power for men and powerlessness for women. She analyzes the failure of organized feminism, particularly legal feminism, to alter this condition, exposing the way male supremacy gives women a survival stake in the system that destroys them. Author Biography Catharine A. MacKinnon is Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law (Long-Term) at Harvard Law School. Table of Contents Introduction: The Art of the Impossible Part 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 Part 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 Part III: Pornography 11. Lindas Life and Andreas Work 12. "More Than Simply a Magazine": Playboys Money 13. Not a Moral Issue 14. Francis Biddles Sister: Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech 15. On Collaboration 16. The Sexual Politics of the First Amendment Afterword Notes Acknowledgments Index Review [MacKinnons] book offers an unorthodox but relentlessly consistent perspective on issues fundamental to feminism. It is passionate, brilliant, polemical and sectarian. Ms. MacKinnon defends what is frequently called radical feminism. As the title of her book indicates, she believes this approach to be the only true or genuine feminism because it alone speaks for all women… Her position is grounded on a clear assertion of the primacy of the social over the biological… Fundamental to her radical feminism is the claim that gender is a system of dominance rather than of difference… Ms. MacKinnon offers a systematic and persuasive perspective on issues that are central not only to feminism but to social theory in general. -- Alison M. Jaggar * New York Times Book Review *This is heavy stuff. [The book] does not tell us what to do. It may, however, make us think, and challenge, and possibly act. -- Lorraine Schmall * ABA Journal *[The book] is to feminism what The German Ideology is to Marxism. Using the tools of sociology of knowledge, Catharine MacKinnon relentlessly uncovers male bias, also known as objectivity and male perspectives also known as universality… On every page are epigrams one wants to print and hang on ones walls. -- Pauline B. Bart * American Journal of Sociology *MacKinnon has been perhaps the most important force behind the burgeoning theoretical literature in law on sex discrimination and feminist theory… Each of the essays published in [the book] stands on its own, making the book a collection of separate entries rather than one sustained argument. Because each essay was originally a speech, the discussions are lucid and dramatic, with the dynamism, immediacy, and sense of discovery of a live presentation; they are also filled with irony, wit, and humor… The book contains brilliant insights, genuine creativity, and rare originality. It should have a significant impact on thinking about sex discrimination and on social and legal thought more generally. * Harvard Law Review *MacKinnon dispatches from her post on the front line of the sexual battlefield searing, sharp communiqués that voice a fierce, relentless, and finally persuasive analysis of how pornography, a perversion of free speech, perpetuates the powerlessness of women. -- Derrick Bell, Harvard Law SchoolCatharine MacKinnons Feminism Unmodified is a remarkably penetrating, bracingly uncompromising view of what it means to be a woman in our society. Written with extraordinary incisiveness and an acid wit, this is an important book for anyone interested in freedom. -- Peter BogdanovichIn this book MacKinnon enlarges our understanding of the nature of civil rights as applied to women. MacKinnons radicalism is thrilling, her determination brilliant, her passion literal. With rigor and irony MacKinnon teaches us what feminism—unmodified by cowardice or by disassociation from other women—is, what it sounds like, and what its goals are. MacKinnons identification with silenced women is precisely what defines feminism unmodified. -- Phyllis Chester, Ph.D., author of Women and MadnessIts a zinger. Ms. MacKinnon has made a difference before, and this book should further change society. -- Miles Lord, former Chief Judge of the Federal Court for the District of MinnesotaCatharine MacKinnons discourses in Feminism Unmodified are final evidence, if any were needed, that hers is the most powerful mind and forceful voice now at work in this critical area of law. I commend her book most vigorously to many who question as well as those who accept her position. -- Burke Marshall, Yale Law SchoolFeminism Unmodified shows Catharine MacKinnon to be one of the most brilliant, original, thought-provoking, and uncompromising feminist theoreticians and strategists in the contemporary United States. -- Diana E. H. Russell, Department of Sociology, Mills College, author of Rape and MarriageI wish to celebrate this book by a peer, a book for reading by men should they wish to keep up with the human race. -- Gerry Spence, author of Trial by Fire Promotional Catharine MacKinnons discourses in Feminism Unmodified are final evidence, if any were needed, that hers is the most powerful mind and forceful voice now at work in this critical area of law. I commend her book most vigorously to many who question as well as those who accept her position. -- Burke Marshall, Yale Law School Feminism Unmodified shows Catharine MacKinnon to be one of the most brilliant, original, thought--provoking, and uncompromising feminist theoreticians and strategists in the contemporary United States. -- Diana E. H. Russell, Department of Sociology, Mills College, and author of Rape and Marriage I wish to celebrate this book by a peer, a book for reading by men should they wish to keep up with the human race. -- Gerry Spence, author of Trial by Fire Its a zinger. Ms. MacKinnon has made a difference before, and this book should further change society. -- Miles Lord, former Chief Judge of the Federal Court for the District of Minnesota Catharine MacKinnons Feminism Unmodified is a remarkably penetrating, bracingly uncompromising view of what it means to be a woman in our society. Written with extraordinary incisiveness and an acid wit, this is an important book for anyone interested in freedom. -- Peter Bogdanovich MacKinnon dispatches from her post on the front line of the sexual battlefield searing, sharp communiques that voice a fierce, relentless, and finally persuasive analysis of how pornography, a perversion of free speech, perpetuates the powerlessness of women. -- Derrick Bell, Harvard Law School In this book MacKinnon enlarges our understanding of the nature of civil rights as applied to women. MacKinnons radicalism is thrilling, her determination brilliant, her passion literal. With rigor and irony MacKinnon teaches us what feminism--unmodified by cowardice or by disassociation from other women-is, what it sounds like, and what its goals are. MacKinnons identification with silenced women is precisely what defines feminism unmodified. -- Phyllis Chester, Ph.D., author of Women and Madness Review Quote This is heavy stuff. [The book] does not tell us what to do. It may, however, make us think, and challenge, and possibly act. Details ISBN0674298748 Author Catharine A. MacKinnon Publisher Harvard University Press Language English ISBN-10 0674298748 ISBN-13 9780674298743 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1988 Imprint Harvard University Press Subtitle Discourses on Life and Law Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass Country of Publication United States Edition New edition Short Title FEMINISM UNMODIFIED REV/E Edition Description Revised Residence Ann Arbor, MI, US Pages 332 DOI 10.1604/9780674298743 Illustrations none UK Release Date 1988-04-01 NZ Release Date 1988-04-01 DEWEY 346.730134 Audience Undergraduate AU Release Date 1987-12-31 Publication Date 1988-01-01 US Release Date 1988-01-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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