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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (November 30, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674025555
ISBN-13: 978-0674025554
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The essays collected here reflect the quintessence of MacKinnon and his travels in Bosnia, Canada, Sweden, and the terrain of international law and gender politics and the injustices that lie beyond the power of one nation. - Martha Minow, Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor, Harvard Law School and author of between vengeance and forgiveness: Facing history after genocide and mass violence (20060609) tests struts MacKinnon globalize their signature ideas - the driving force behind "neutral" rules, the Role of male privilege in the construction of hierarchical rules and legislative processes, the invisibility of the issue through public / private divide, the design flaws of Aristotle on equality - with devastating consequences for the area previously complacent international law. This sharp criticism, as international law is conceived and practiced, produces little more than a decade, which the transformative potential of law, to engage that (and change) is looking for the real world. MacKinnon critical thinking of such diverse topics as the management of collective actions for selective selection into the war against terrorism to express, must-read for anyone who behave like nations (GIS) to be worried. They are the "shock and awe" that the Bush administration has promised but never delivered. - Jose E. Alvarez, Hamilton Fish Professor of Law & Diplomacy, Columbia Law School's (20060601) All work of Catharine MacKinnon bound to be provocative and exciting. Here is a party, a collection of work is showing how the author's ideas on women's rights developed over 20 years. The simple question "are women human?" Leads us to see clearly, in a world dominated by men has always been tolerated, condoned and even encouraged gender-based violence and abuse. N no area is spared the devastating spotlight, sexual harassment, pornography, rape and violence against the terrorism and armed conflicts. But that is not an exercise in hand wringing. The author's passion for real equality, his analytical brilliance and creativity of these sites. His new approaches to justice have inspired many women to claim their rights and found their way into the national legislation and international instruments. All this and much more in a really great book -. Elizabeth Evatt, former President of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and a former member of the Committee on Human Rights (20060731) This collection of studies, the pioneering feminist lawyer international law calls on women denial of property rights, use of rape and other abuses in the war to protect male oppression. (Ms 20,070,805) [MacKinnon] is undoubtedly one of the most important figures of the feminist movement, a fiercely tough-minded jurist and scientist who tries to use the law to punish sexual harassment is and pornography -. Stuart Jeffries (The Guardian) Catharine A.. MacKinnon is the world's leading feminist legal theorist, and his work inden last three decades has contributed to a whole range of theories about gender, and state law. With the end of Andrea Dworkin, MacKinnon has also one of thegreat thinkers and activists on the issue of women's rights in the global arena to be, especially about how the ongoing division between public and private sphere (in areas such as pornography, for example) to support a matrix of inequality and exploitation. In this collection of previously published essays and lectures, MacKinnonconcentre international legal dimensions of feminist theory. She asked how the international law, especially international human rights protection, structured could be considered, the uniqueness of the crimes against women. - King Charles (Times Literary Supplement) Ms MacKinnon many vivid examples of governments and intensely disturbing, offers open by the action or indifference, treating women as inferior and therefore take the women of their human rights ... It attempts to make changes to the legal world. - Kay E. Wilde (New York Law Journal Magazine) A sparkling book, perhaps best of it. Disturbing in the best way women are people? shows [MacKinnon] to not only a wonderfully creative feminist thinker can see the world from a different angle than everyone else (and I mean in terms of reality, as the usual half-truth as opposed) to see but also one of our most creative thinkers about international law. As elsewhere in MacKinnon work, we find written a lot of sharp and eloquent, but there is a systematic analysis and comprehensive than we sometimes science, and the book is the richest. The central theme of MacKinnon, won repeatedly and convincingly, is the hypocrisy of the international system, if it confront certain crimes against humanity faces, but not similar harms when they happen to women, often every day ... Are women human? is an important contribution both to feminism and international law ... He threw himself as a builder of peace issues MacKinnon, met a challenge to his opponents, the stereotypical boring as they violently Amazon on the path of war against the liberties of the people. This book is indeed hard, unrelenting in its description of violence and hypocrisy. In a world where women suffer from pervasive violence, but it is the violence of the theory is a good move us closer to peace. - Martha Nussbaum (The Nation) in the past 25 years, Catharine MacKinnon, has changed the face of feminist legal theory. A law professor at the University of Michigan, it's like there is criticism, "a famous polarizing '... A new collection of speeches and writings by Mr. MacKinnon, are women human? And other international dialogues took note of the political work they have in Canada, the United States and abroad confirms, and his more recent approach to accountability in the global arena of human rights. Discuss the ritualized forms of violence by the military in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in other regions performed, he argues that the actions of international human rights organizations can be applied to stop these forms of violence against women -. Susan G. Cole (Herizons) in Catharine A. MacKinnon find - the brilliant author of 11 pounds and theoretically rigorous, a law professor at the Universitatof Michigan and an internship at the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford - as a feminist researcher is a bit like describing it as an intellectual blonde: precise, but also a bit ridiculous MacKinnon is a dominant figure on the world stage, far beyond. categorizations in the application or ridicule cause marginalization. The leitmotif of his work is the correction of social injustice, and its role in shaping thePerception of injustice unpredictable daily ... She has her life to creating a world in which we are dedicated to accept all or are required to take responsibility for the dignity and welfare of our fellow human beings to accept. Are women human? supports only its success. - Antonella Gambotto-Burke (South China Morning Post) wrote MacKinnon is amazingly powerful, combining a convincing air of authority and outrage with a sense of despair over the enormity of the domination of women by men. It is difficult, with its central thesis that much violence against women contradict the seriousness of the violation of human rights. Moreover, MacKinnon provides a compelling critique of the doctrine that only states that violate international law and that the atrocities merit international intervention only limit ... Are women human? It is a book worth reading. It contains important empirical and legal conflicts, people ... It develops MacKinnon's feminist philosophy, building on the approach developed in his earlier works and demonstrating how feminism should respond to international issues. And it works directly with current debates about culture, global justice, human rights, international law and the requirements of equality. - Clare Chambers (Ethics & International Affairs)
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