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Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law
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Catharine A. MacKinnon, noted feminist and legal scholar, explores and develops her original theories and practical proposals on sexual politics and law. 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 offers a unique retrospective on the law of
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Paperback, 332 pages
Published
January 1st 1988
by Harvard University Press
(first published January 1st 1987)
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(3.0) concuerdo con la mayor parte, aunque a veces el enfoque del que parte me resulta errado y la exclusión de lesbianas y mujeres trans del análisis salvo por menciones esporádicas me pareció bastante significativa. también se tornó algo repetitivo pero de todos modos es una lectura importante y tiene base en la realidad material de un grupo, o cual no suele ocurrir en los libros de feminismo “mainstream” (?).
Buku ini kumpulan Pidato/ceramah Prof.Catharine Mackinnon...keren abiss, her consistency against patriarchy and her deepest and substance matters, her words are exceptionally poetic yet strong and provocative and true....
quotation : (Prof. Catharine Mackinnon, women self possession and sports- in Feminism Unmodified Discourse on Life and Law)
by Umi Lasmina on Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 5:12pm
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quotation : (Prof. Catharine Mackinnon, women self possession and sports- in Feminism Unmodified Discourse on Life and Law)
by Umi Lasmina on Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 5:12pm
Sexism is a problem not differentiation. Gender hierarchy is in gender dif ...more
2007- It took me a few years to make sense of it all (because I had to experience some of it first-hand), but I agree with most of it. Especially the stuff on pornography.
2012- I re-read this as a counter-point, just after reading "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star," Jenna Jamison's biography, in order to cleanse my brain and re-examine the big picture again.
2012- I re-read this as a counter-point, just after reading "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star," Jenna Jamison's biography, in order to cleanse my brain and re-examine the big picture again.
Sep 10, 2013
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I've started to review this book a couple times, and just could not get a grip on it. It's a hard book to review, because it's so piecemeal. Instead of a single argument or thesis given a book-length treatment, Feminism Unmodified is a series of transcribed speeches grouped by theme. Each one can stand alone, but they overlap a lot with one another in terms of subject matter and the argument they are making. You can read through them all, cover to cover, or you can flip through the book and read them as t
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Radical. Mind-blowing. Certainly the most exciting law-book I have yet read. Relies more on the shock factor than watertight argument but fuck knows I was happy to find a readable (let alone inflammatory, engaging) legal text.
Some parts I could not read however and would not advise other faint-of-hearts to attempt, for they were too detailed personal accounts of horrors done unto women.
Some parts I could not read however and would not advise other faint-of-hearts to attempt, for they were too detailed personal accounts of horrors done unto women.
gdi, this book has made me acknowledge that law isn't complete garbage as a lot of the things that MacKinnon criticizes have changed and for the better i.e. there's a pretty good framework in place in labour law for challenging standards based on men/able-bodiness/etc wrt Canadian law. Law is still a pretty much garbage instrument for handling systemic inequality though.
Rigorous book , very well instructive and articulated. I think it can be touted as a feminist classic !
Sep 07, 2010
ainsley
marked it as to-read
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Catharine A. MacKinnon is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (long-term). She holds a BA from Smith College, a JD from Yale Law School, and a PhD in political science from Yale, and specializes in sex equality issues under international and domestic (including comparative and constitutional) l
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“Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.”
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“In other words, for purposes of sex discrimination law, to be a woman means either to be like a man or like a lady. We have to meet either the male standard for males or the male standard for females.”
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