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. Linda's Life and Andrea's Work 12. "More Than Simply a Magazine": Playboy's Money 13. Not a Moral Issue 14. Francis Biddle's Sister: Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech 15. On Collaboration 16. The Sexual Politics of the First Amendment Afterword Notes Acknowledgments Index
Catharine MacKinnon's 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 It's 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 MacKinnon's 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. MacKinnon's 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. MacKinnon's identification with silenced women is precisely what defines feminism unmodified. -- Phyllis Chester, Ph.D., author of Women and Madness
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.
[MacKinnon’s] 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.
*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.
*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 one’s walls.
*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 School*
Catharine MacKinnon’s 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*
In this book MacKinnon enlarges our understanding of the nature of
civil rights as applied to women. MacKinnon’s 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. MacKinnon’s identification with
silenced women is precisely what defines feminism unmodified.
*Phyllis Chester, Ph.D., author of Women and Madness*
It’s 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 MacKinnon’s 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,
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*
[MacKinnon's] 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 one's 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 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
Catharine MacKinnon's 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
In this book MacKinnon enlarges our understanding of the nature of
civil rights as applied to women. MacKinnon's 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. MacKinnon's identification with
silenced women is precisely what defines feminism unmodified. --
Phyllis Chester, Ph.D., author of Women and Madness
It's 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 MacKinnon's 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, 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
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