Women's lives, men's laws / Catharine A. MacKinnon.

Cambridge, Mass. : The Bellknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.

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Women -- legal status laws etc. -- United States.

Women lawyers -- United States.

Introduction: realizing law

Part 1. Equality re-envisioned: Section A. Women's lives under men's laws: 1. Unthinking ERA thinking

2. From practice to theory, or what is a white woman anyway?

3. Law in the everyday life of women

4. Toward a new theory of equality

5. Law's stories as reality and politics

6. "Freedom from unreal loyalties": on fidelity in constitutional interpretation

7. What Brown v Board of Education should have said

8. Keeping it real: on anti "essentialism"

9. Of mice and men: a fragment on animal rights

10. The power to change

Section B. Sexual abuse as sex inequality: 11. Sexual harassment: the first five years

12. Reflections on sex equality under law

13. Prostitution and civil rights

14. The logic of experience: the development of sexual harassment law

15. On accountability for sexual harassment

16. Beyond moralism: directions in sexual harassment law

17. Disputing male sovereignty: on United States v Morrison

18. Unequal sex: a sex equality approach to sexual assault

Part 2. Sexuality, inequality, and speech: Section A. Theory and practice: 19. Sex, lies and psychotherapy

20. Liberalism and the death of feminism

21. Does sexuality have a history

22. Speaking truth to power

23. Mediating reality

Section B. Pornography as sex inequality: 24. Civil rights against pornography

25. Pornography as defamation and discrimination

26. Pornography left and right

27. From silence to silence: violence against women in America

28. Vindication and resistance

29. The roar on the other side of silence

Notes

Index.

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