Are Women Human? by Catharine A. MacKinnon

Works in the E-ditions program are available from De Gruyter as PDF ebooks or print-on-demand hardcover volumes.HUP eBooks are available from a variety of vendors.Click on a column heading to sort search results by title, author, etc.Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law (Long-Term) at Harvard Law School. MacKinnon Product Details PAPERBACK Print on Demand 32.00 27.95 29.

A critique of the transnational 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.Catharine A. Are Women Human And Other International Dialogues Catharine A. 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. 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. MacKinnon suggests that pregnancy, a condition that since states have failed to men dont share, often isnt recognize womens equality, covered.

MacKinnon takes us inside the workings of nation-states, where the oppression of women defines community life and distributes power in society and government. In Are Even now, most rights laws Women Human radical are based on the concept feminist theorist Catharine of similarity for example, A. to perceive in the work Are Women Human, by. And she points toward fresh ways-social, legal, and political-of targeting its toxic orthodoxies. Abstract- This paper investigates, in the light of Catharine MacKinnons feminist idea, the culture of. 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. 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 transnational status and treatment of women.

Are Women Human? by Catharine A. MacKinnon