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020 _a9780674416604 (hardcover)
037 _cPurchased
_nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041 _aEnglish
042 _apcc
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082 0 0 _a342.7308
_bMAC/BU
100 1 _aMacKinnon, Catharine A.
245 1 0 _aBUTTERFLY POLITICS
_cCatharine A. MacKinnon.
250 _a1
260 _aLondon
_bHarvard University Press
_c2017/01/01
300 _g490
500 _a"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.
505 0 _aTo 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, Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (1985) -- Substantive equality (1989) -- On torture (1990) -- Rape as genocide : appellate argument, Kadic v. Karadzic (1995) -- Rape as genocide : summation to the jury, Kadic v. Karadzic (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).
650 0 _aSex discrimination against women
650 0 _aSexual harassment
650 0 _aRape
650 0 _aPornography
650 0 _aWomen's rights
650 0 _aFeminist jurisprudence
942 _cLEN
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"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"--
650 0 _xLaw and legislation
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _xLaw and legislation
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _xLaw and legislation
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _xLaw and legislation
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _zUnited States
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650 0 _zUnited States.
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