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Butterfly politics /Catharine A. MacKinnon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resource (490 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674977761
  • 9780674977785
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • KF4758 .B888 2017
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
A radical act of hope (1989) -- Law's power (1990) -- To quash a lie (1991) -- The measure of what matters (1992) -- Intervening for sex equality (2013) -- Introduction, symposium on sexual harassment (1981) -- Sexual harassment Supreme Court brief for Mechelle Vinson (1986) -- Testimony on pornography, Minneapolis (1983) -- Testimony to the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (1985) -- Substantive equality (1989) -- On torture (1990) -- Rape as genocide: appellate argument in Kadic volume Karadžić (1995) -- Rape as genocide: summation to the jury in Kadic volume Karadžić (2000) -- Trafficking, prostitution, and inequality (2015) -- Reality not fantasy (1985) -- To the American Civil Liberties Union on pornography (1985) -- X-Underrated (2005) -- Gender: the future (2007) -- Gender literacy (1994) -- Mainstreaming feminism in legal education (2003) -- On academic freedom: from powerlessness to power (2002) -- Engaged scholarship as method and vocation (2005) -- Defying gravity (2013) -- Rape redefined (2014) -- Restoring institutional accountability for educational sexual harassment (2013) -- Toward a renewed Equal Rights Amendment: now more than ever (2014) -- Sex equality in global perspective (2015).
Subject: "The theme of this book is intervening in the process of social change through legal change. The book consists of 28 chapters with introductory and concluding essays by Catharine MacKinnon. All develop the author's signature theme: that one cannot think that the way the law approaches things is all there is to knowing about them. The focus of the argument is that some wrongs (to women) may not yet be intelligible as legal wrongs, and that social problems (of oppression) may yet have no adequate legal approach. The collection makes an ideal introduction to the writing and thinking of this foremost legal scholar"--
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"Encompassing legal and political interventions from 1976 to 2016, this volume collects moments of attempts to change the inequality of women to men and reflections on those attempts"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographies and index.

"The theme of this book is intervening in the process of social change through legal change. The book consists of 28 chapters with introductory and concluding essays by Catharine MacKinnon. All develop the author's signature theme: that one cannot think that the way the law approaches things is all there is to knowing about them. The focus of the argument is that some wrongs (to women) may not yet be intelligible as legal wrongs, and that social problems (of oppression) may yet have no adequate legal approach. The collection makes an ideal introduction to the writing and thinking of this foremost legal scholar"--

To change the world for women (1980) -- A radical act of hope (1989) -- Law's power (1990) -- To quash a lie (1991) -- The measure of what matters (1992) -- Intervening for sex equality (2013) -- Introduction, symposium on sexual harassment (1981) -- Sexual harassment Supreme Court brief for Mechelle Vinson (1986) -- Testimony on pornography, Minneapolis (1983) -- Testimony to the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (1985) -- Substantive equality (1989) -- On torture (1990) -- Rape as genocide: appellate argument in Kadic volume Karadžić (1995) -- Rape as genocide: summation to the jury in Kadic volume Karadžić (2000) -- Trafficking, prostitution, and inequality (2015) -- Reality not fantasy (1985) -- To the American Civil Liberties Union on pornography (1985) -- X-Underrated (2005) -- Gender: the future (2007) -- Gender literacy (1994) -- Mainstreaming feminism in legal education (2003) -- On academic freedom: from powerlessness to power (2002) -- Engaged scholarship as method and vocation (2005) -- Defying gravity (2013) -- Rape redefined (2014) -- Restoring institutional accountability for educational sexual harassment (2013) -- Toward a renewed Equal Rights Amendment: now more than ever (2014) -- Sex equality in global perspective (2015).

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