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.
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