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Are Women Human? Catharine A. MacKinnon

Are Women Human? By Catharine A. MacKinnon

Are Women Human? by Catharine A. MacKinnon


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Summary

More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, this book asks: Are women human yet?

Are Women Human? Summary

Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A. MacKinnon

More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: are women human yet? If women were regarded as human, would they be sold into sexual slavery worldwide; veiled, silenced and imprisoned in homes; bred, and worked as menials for little or no pay; stoned for sex outside marriage or burned within it; mutilated genitally, impoverished economically, and mired in illiteracy - all as a matter of course and without effective recourse? The cutting edge is where law and culture hurts, which is where MacKinnon operates in these essays on the trans-national status and treatment of women. Taking her gendered critique of the state to the international plane, ranging widely intellectually and concretely, she exposes the consequences and significance of the systematic maltreatment of women and its systemic condonation. And she points toward fresh ways - social, legal and political - of targeting its toxic orthodoxies. MacKinnon takes us inside the workings of nation-states, where the oppression of women defines community life and distributes power in society and government. She takes us to Bosnia-Herzogovina for a harrowing look at how the wholesale rape and murder of women and girls there was an act of genocide, not a side effect of war. She takes us into the heart of the international law of conflict to ask - and reveal - why the international community can rally against terrorists' violence, but not against violence against women. A critique of the trans-national status quo that also envisions the transforming possibilities of human rights, this bracing book makes us look as never before at an ongoing war too long undeclared.

Are Women Human? Reviews

MacKinnon is the world's leading feminist legal theorist, and her work over the past three decades has helped create an entire field of theorizing about gender, the State, and law. - Charles King, Times Literary Supplement

About Catharine A. MacKinnon

Catharine A. MacKinnon is Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.

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GOR007647687
9780674021877
0674021878
Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Harvard University Press
20060401
392
Short-listed for Diagram Prize for the Oddest Title of the Year 2007
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