April 15, 2005

Book: Women's Lives, Men's Laws

Catharine A. MacKinnon develops this book based on the cases she has fought for her women clients since the mid-1970s. They deal with sexual harassment at work and school, pornography and murder, sexual assaults and genocidal sexual atrocities. "Surely one of the most effective strategies for maintaining a system of dominance is to convince those who seek to end it that the tools of dominance must be left in the hands of the dominant." (p.42) Her book "is a demand that law recongize that women live here, too. Every day of our lives." (p.43) (Vairo Library KF478.M26 2005)

Posted by slw4 at April 15, 2005 01:34 PM