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Title: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law by Catharine A. MacKinnon ISBN: 0-674-29874-8 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Rosetta of Social Constructivist Radical Feminism
Comment: This eloquent book is a collection of insightful orations given by Ms. MacKinnon during the eighties with in their aggregation is a powerful text on social constructivist Radical Feminism and class analysis. Ms. MacKinnon's approaches provide needed shifts in paradigms away from patriarchy. Gender is understood in terms of the the only meaning it can have in this society: Dominance of one class over another. She provide incredible distinctions and indepth discussions on issues such as Full and Formal Equity, definitions and meaning of rape and pornography.
She has a requisite versing in philosophy as she appeals to provides epistemological shifts needed to question the meaning of difficult constructs such as gender. Being a lawyer, she is facile in illuminating basic assumptive inequities in Juris Prudence. I was most appreciative at her analysis of rape and shifting the definition of rape from penetration to violence and where rape is not an erotic act but one of dominance. She continues further and looks at how members of gendered class male define the sexuality of members of gendered class woman until we do not know what our sexuality really is.
She provides a variety of diverse topics but ties them together by pinpointing their interrelatedness in patriarchy. She skillfully examines issues of the first amendment vs pornography and aptly illustrates how the Bill of Rights is becoming a legal repository for male priviledge.
Ms. MacKinnon's messages are presented in multiple levels and at varying depths and accessibilities, one thing to know is that there is always another level of understanding to be attained from this book. The reader is assured that there is much here if she avails herself to it. Please do not short change yourself by a cursory reading. Ms. MacKinnon departs from Radical Feminist stereotypes in that she develops an experienced level of vulnerability in her speeches and the reader can actually feel the extent that she cares about women.
How fortunate that the paperback is hardy, because it travels with me often.
Rating: 3
Summary: Feminism from a law professor's perspective.
Comment: MacKinnon provokes and challenges the prevaling paradigm with a set of essays which, because they are transcripts of speeches, come imbued with a lively, conversational quality. MacKinnon shows why liberalism is not the equivalent of liberation -- and may actually impede it.
Pornography seems ubiquitous in the age of the Internet. At the same time, those who point out sexism frequently find their viewpoints being considered hopelessly passé. Thus, the value in this book is at least as timely now as it was a decade ago.
Relevant to people in any country or walk of life, this book would be particularly useful as an antidote to the typical two-dimensional North American law school freedom of speech course.
I had originally given the book a higher rating, but changed that in view of MacKinnon's emphasis on legislative solutions to the problem of pornography. Pornography is sexual imagery which is marketed to promote or pander to a dominator paradigm -- a paradigm which, alas, people grow up seeing as normal and acceptable. Calling it illegal keeps lawyers and legislators occupied, but arguably fails to address the problem at its roots.
In any case, this book discusses the issues in candid intensity, and feminism is the richer for moral baselines which MacKinnon champions.
Rating: 4
Summary: Thought provoking
Comment: How much you appreciate this book depends on what you want to get out of it. It is accessible to a non-academic reader, and although I disagree with her thesis, the speeches are well-argued. She basically thinks that gender *is* domination, and attempts to show that the meaning of woman-ness is in subjection. I think that if you care about feminism, you must at least understand this radical claim. She has definately made me rethink some of my kneejerk assumptions, which after all is the whole point.
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Title: Toward a Feminist Theory of the State by Catharine A. MacKinnon ISBN: 0674896467 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development by Carol Gilligan ISBN: 0674445449 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Neoconservative Vision: From the Cold War to Culture Wars by Mark Gerson ISBN: 1568331002 Publisher: Madison Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: A Theory of Justice (Belknap) by John Rawls ISBN: 0674000781 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin ISBN: 0684832399 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 12 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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