Table of Contents

Preface: The Imaginary DomainAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction: Feminism, Justice, and Sexual Freedom3Ch. 2Freed Up: Privacy, Sexual Freedom, and Liberty of Conscience33Ch. 3Nature, Gender, and Equivalent Evaluation of Sexual Difference66Ch. 4Adoption and Its Progeny: Rethinking Family Law, Gender, and Sexual Difference96Ch. 5What and How Maketh a Father? Equality versus Conscription131Ch. 6Troubled Legacies: Human Rights, Imperialism, and Women's Freedom151Ch. 7Feminism, Utopianism, and the Role of the Ideal in Political Philosophy174Notes187Bibliography233Index245

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True to a revolutionary vision of feminist politics, in this courageous and fascinating book Drucilla Cornell challenges everyone to rethink feminist theory in ways that interrogate and transform the discourse so that it offers an inclusive paradigm for liberation. -- bell hooks

About the Author

Drucilla Cornell is Professor of Law, Political Science, and Women's Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of numerous books, including The Imaginary Domain: A Discourse on Abortion, Pornography, and Sexual Harassment and Transformations: Recollective Imagination and Sexual Difference. She has also edited and coedited several books, including Feminism and Pornography (forthcoming) and Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice (with Michel Rosenfeld and David G. Carlson).

Reviews

"This work unabashedly focuses on the individual and stresses the freedom of each as a sexual being... A valuable study."--Gayle Binion, Political Theory