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Women's Lives, Men's Laws
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In the past twenty-five years, no one has been more instrumental than Catharine MacKinnon in making equal rights real for women. As Peter Jennings once put it, more than anyone else in legal studies, she "has made it easier for other women to seek justice." This collection, the first since MacKinnon's celebrated Feminism Unmodified appeared in 1987, brings together previously uncoll
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Paperback, 558 pages
Published
April 30th 2007
by Belknap Press
(first published February 28th 2005)
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Although I am not from the USA or any Common law nation for that matter, MacKinnon's collection of speeches and articles were of greatest value. The particulars would, of course, be of more interest if they had more direct connotations to the juridical system in use in Sweden, where I live, but its over-all usefulness, regardless, should only prove how well-versed MacKinnon is. From prostitution, pornography, rape laws, sex discrimination, and work-place harassment, she delivers well-written tex
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This book was extremely difficult to read--many times I had to go back a reread a sentence several time because it made no sense to me, or seemed contradictory to the points she was trying to make, which seemed to me to be that women are oppressed because men make the laws, society (Men) allows women to be marginalized legally by stacking the deck legally. She is especially interested in rape and in pornography and the way society deals with them.
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This is the book I have searched to find for the past decade! It is perfect!
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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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