Women's Lives, Men's Laws by Catharine A. MacKinnon

MacKinnon notes that an equal rights amendment cannot halt all the institutionalized social practices by which women are disadvantaged, exploited and abused by the men. Against challenges from anti-essentialist and sex-positive critiques, MacKinnon’s theory embraces intersectionality as a method and pursues equality by resisting sexual oppression. Womens Lives, Mens Laws (English, Paperback, MacKinnon Catharine A.) Language: English Binding: Paperback Publisher: Harvard University Press Genre: Law. Limitations of Our Legal System Feminist legal theorist and University of Michigan law Professor Catharine A. It is also an engaged theory producing sex equality laws to address women’s sexual violations: sexual harassment as a legal injury and a form of sex discrimination a harm-based civil-rights approach to pornography an asymmetrical approach to the abolition of prostitution and an inequality approach to rape as a gender-based crime. Belknap Press, 39.95 (558pp) ISBN 978-0-1 As an activist and legal scholar, MacKinnon has been a prominent force. Drawing on feminist consciousness raising as method, her theory sees gender as an inequality and sexuality as the linchpin of gender inequality. Womens Lives, Mens Laws (English, Paperback, MacKinnon Catharine A.) 2,351. BUY THIS BOOK Women's Lives, Men's Laws Catharine A.

The focus, not surprisingly, remains on sexual harassment and. Beginning with a radical critique of liberal legalism, feminism and Marxism, MacKinnon conceived a hierarchy-centered theory of substantive equality, shifting the paradigm of equality thinking from questions of sameness and difference to the power structure of dominance and subordination. Section B of the first part of Womens Lives, Mens Laws deals exclusively with sexual abuse. MacKinnon’s theory of sex equality, its application as well as major strands of criticism.

Women's Lives, Men's Laws by Catharine A. MacKinnon