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In the past twenty-five years, no one has been more instrumental than Catharine MacKinnon in making equal rights real for women. As Peter Jennings once put it, more than anyone else in legal studies, she "has made it easier for other women to seek justice." This collection, the first since MacKinnon's celebrated Feminism Unmodified appeared in 1987, brings together previously uncollected and unpublished work in the national arena from 1980 to the present, defining her clear, coherent, consistent approach to reframing the law of men on the basis of the lives of women. By making visible the deep gender bias of existing law, MacKinnon has recast legal debate and action on issues of sex discrimination, sexual abuse, prostitution, pornography, and racism. The essays in this volume document and illuminate some of the momentous and ongoing changes to which this work contributes; the recognition of sexual harassment, rape, and battering as claims for sexual discrimination; the redefinition of rape in terms of women's actual experience of sexual violation; and the reframing of the pornography debate around harm rather than morality. The perspectives in these essays have played an essential part in changing American law and remain fundamental to the project of building a sex-equal future. This Collection, The First Since Mackinnon's Celebrated Feminism Unmodified Appeared In 1987, Brings Together Previously Uncollected And Unpublished Work In The National Arena From 1980 To The Present, Defining Her Clear, Coherent, Consistent Approach To Reframing The Laws Of Men On The Basis Of The Lives Of Women.--jacket. Introduction : Realizing Law -- Unthinking Era Thinking -- From Practice To Theory, Or What Is A White Woman Anyway? -- Law In The Everyday Life Of Women -- Toward A New Theory Of Equality -- Law's Stories As Reality And Politics -- Freedom From Unreal Loyalties : On Fidelity In Constitutional Interpretation -- What Brown V. Board Of Education Should Have Said -- Keeping It Real : On Anti-essentialism -- Of Mice And Men : A Fragment On Animal Rights -- The Power To Change -- Sexual Harassment : The First Five Years -- Reflections On Sex Equality Under Law -- Prostitution And Civil Rights -- The Logic Of Experience : The Development Of Sexual Harassment Law -- On Accountability For Sexual Harassment -- Beyond Moralism : Directions In Sexual Harassment Law -- Disputing Male Sovereignty : On United States V. Morrison -- Unequal Sex : A Sex Equality Approach To Sexual Assault -- Sex, Lies, And Psychotherapy -- Liberalism And The Death Of Feminism -- Does Sexuality Have A History? -- Speaking Truth To Power -- Mediating Reality -- Civil Rights Against Pornography -- Pornography As Defamation And Discrimination -- Pornography Left And Right -- From Silence To Silence : Violence Against Women In America -- Vindication And Resistance -- The Roar On The Other Side Of Silence. Catharine A. Mackinnon. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [375]-535) And Index. Preface 6 Contents 8 Introduction: Realizing Law 12 Part One: Equality Re-envisioned 22 Section A. Women’s Lives Under Men’s Laws 22 1 Unthinking ERA Thinking 24 2 From Practice to Theory, Or What Is a White Woman Anyway? 33 3 Law in the Everyday Life of Women 43 4 Toward a New Theory of Equality 55 5 Law’s Stories as Reality and Politics 69 6 “Freedom from Unreal Loyalties”: On Fidelity in Constitutional Interpretation 76 7 What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said 83 8 Keeping It Real: On Anti-“Essentialism” 95 9 Of Mice and Men: A Fragment on Animal Rights 102 10 The Power to Change 114 Section B. Sexual Abuse as Sex Inequality 120 11 Sexual Harassment: The First Five Years 22 12 Reflections on Sex Equality Under Law 127 13 Prostitution and Civil Rights 162 14 The Logic of Experience: The Development of Sexual Harassment Law 173 15 On Accountability for Sexual Harassment 191 16 Beyond Moralism: Directions in Sexual Harassment Law 195 Disputing Male Sovereignty: On United States v. Morrison 217 18 Unequal Sex: A Sex Equality Approach to Sexual Assault 251 Part Two: Sexuality, Inequality, and Speech 260 Section A. Theory and Practice 260 19 Sex, Lies, and Psychotherapy 262 20 Liberalism and the Death of Feminism 270 21 Does Sexuality Have a History? 280 22 Speaking Truth to Power 288 23 Mediating Reality 300 Section B. Pornography as Sex Inequality 308 24 Civil Rights Against Pornography 310 25 Pornography as Defamation and Discrimination 320 26 Pornography Left and Right 338 27 From Silence to Silence: Violence Against Womenin America 356 28 Vindication and Resistance 363 29 The Roar on the Other Side of Silence 370 Notes 386 Index 548 In the past 25 years, no one has been more instrumental than MacKinnon in making equal rights real for women. This collection brings together previously uncollected and unpublished work in the national arena from 1980 to the present, defining her clear, coherent, consistent approach to reframing the law of men on the basis of the lives of women. In an incisive compilation of essays, the author of Feminism Unmodified explores some of the momentous and ongoing changes that reframe the law of men in terms of their foundation in the lives of women, covering such topics as sexual harassment, rape, domestic violence, sexual discrimination, and pornography. 'Women's Lives, Men's Laws' collects papers by MacKinnon from 1980 to the present, in which she discusses the deep gender bias of American law and the changes to legislation on sexual harassment, rape and battering, to which she has contributed