Catharine A. MacKinnon is a pioneering legal scholar whose work focuses on issues of sex equality. Her innovative approaches to legal claims regarding sexual harassment and pornography as a civil rights violation, along with her work on abolitionist models of prostitution, have significantly influenced international law. Her analyses of equality, pornography, and hate speech have been widely adopted, and her work in international law, including representing survivors of genocidal sexual violence, has led to landmark legal victories. MacKinnon's writings offer profound insights into legal mechanisms and their impact on equality and human rights.
More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? She exposes the consequences and significance of the systematic maltreatment of women and its systemic condonation as she points toward fresh ways of targeting its toxic orthodoxies.
A practicing attorney views the sexual harassment of working women as a pervasive social problem and presents a legal argument that it is discrimination based on sex.
A new edition of the earthshaking work that exposed the subjugation of women in culture and life.
"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.
The miniscule motion of a butterfly's wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Catharine A. MacKinnon's collected work on gender inequality including new pieces argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural transformations.