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. Professor Catherine MacKinnons Feminism Unmodified is not lifeless, but its animus against men and heterosexuality will quickly tire anyone who does not share. She reveals a political system of male dominance and female subordination that sexualizes power for men and powerlessness for women. The reason feminism uncovered this reality, its methodological se- cret, is that feminism is built on believing womens accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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, noted feminist and legal scholar, explores and develops her original theories and practical proposals on sexual politics and law. O元917157W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.77 Pages 334 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0674298748 Feminism unmodified : discourses on life and law by MacKinnon, Catharine A Publication date 1987 Topics Women, Feminism Publisher Cambridge, Mass.
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