Table of Contents
Preface
Part I: Sexuality
Section 1: Pornography
Introduction
1. Against the Male Flood: Censorship, Pornography, and Equality – Andrea Dworkin
2. Not a Moral Issue, in Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law – Catharine A. MacKinnon
3. Francis Biddle's Sister: Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech – Catharine A. MacKinnon
4. Pornography and the First Amendment: A Reply to Professor MacKinnon – Thomas I. Emerson
5. Whose Right? Ronald Dworkin, Women and Pornographers – Rae Langton
6. American Booksellers Association, Inc. v. Hudnut
7. Butler v. The Queen
8. Brief Amici Curiae of Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force et al., in American Booksellers Association v. Hudnut – Nan D. Hunter and Sylvia A. Law
9. A Feminist Critique of "The" Feminist Critique of Pornography – Nadine Strossen
10. Sex, Sin, and Women's Liberation: Against Porn-Suppression – Carlin Meyer
11. The Difference in Women's Hedonic Lives: A Phenomenological Critique of Feminist Legal Theory – Robin West
Section 2: Prostitution
Introduction
12. Male Vice and Female Virtue: Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain – Judith R. Walkowitz
13. Charges Against Prostitution: An Attempt at a Philosophical Assessment – Lars O. Ericsson
14. Defending Prostitution – Carole Pateman
15. Prostitution and Civil Rights – Catharine A. MacKinnon
16. The Feminist Debate over Prostitution Reform – Jody Freeman
17. A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto – Mary Jo Frug
18. Split at the Root: Prostitution and Feminist Discourses of Law Reform – Margaret A. Baldwin
Part II: Violence
Section 3: Battered Women
Introduction
19. The Roots of the Battered Women's Movement: Personal and Political – Susan Schechter
20. State v. Wanrow
21. Describing and Changing: Women's Self-Defense Work and the Problem of Expert Testimony on Battering – Elizabeth M. Schneider
22. Women's Experience and the Problem of Transition: Perspectives on Male Battering of Women – Christine A. Littleton
23. Legal Images of Battered Women: Redefining the Issues of Separation – Martha R. Mahoney
24. Whose Story Is It, Anyway? En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas and the Construction of Social Reality – Kimberlé Crenshaw
25. Lavender Bruises – Ruthann Robson
26. The Violence of Privacy Rape – Elizabeth M. Schneider
Section 4: Rape
Introduction
27. Rape: The All-American Crime – Susan Griffin
28. Rape – Susan Estrich
29. Michael M. v. Superior Court
30. Statutory Rape: A Feminist Critique of Rights Analysis – Frances Olsen
31. "Rape: On Coercion and Consent" – Catharine A. MacKinnon
32. Date Rape – Lois Pineau
33. Rape, Racism and the Law – Jennifer Wriggens
34. Equality Theory, Marital Rape, and the Promise of the Fourteenth Amendment – Robin West
Part III: Employment
Section 5: Employment
A. Work-Family Conflict, Occupational Segregation and Comparable Worth
Introduction
35. Work and Family: The Gender Paradox and the Limitations of Discrimination Analysis in Restructuring the Workplace – Nancy E. Dowd
36. EEOC v. Sears, Roebuck and Company
37. EEOC v. Sears, Roebuck and Company (Appellate Opinion)
38. EEOC v. Sears: A Personal Account – Alice Kessler-Harris
39. Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: Or the Uses of Post-Structuralist Theory of Feminism – Joan Scott
40. Deconstructing Gender – Joan Williams
41. Telling Stories about Women and Work: Judicial Interpretation of Sex Segregation in the Workplace – Vicki Schultz
42. Feminizing Unions: Challenging the Gendered Structure of Wage Labor – Marion G. Crain
43. Comparable Worth and Its Impact on Black Women – Julianne Malveaux
44. Barriers Facing Women in the Wage-Labor Market and the Need for Additional Remedies – Mary E. Becker
45. Social Construction of Skill: Gender, Power, and Comparable Worth – Ronnie J. Steinberg
B. Sexual Harassment
Introduction
46. Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson
47. Ellison v. Brady
48. Sex at Work – Susan Estrich
49. What's the Big Deal? Women in New York City Construction Industry and Sexual Harassment Law, 1970-1985 – Elvia R. Arriola
50. Employer Abuse, Worker Resistance, and the Tort of Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress – Regina Austin
51. Feminist Constructions of Objectivity: Multiple Perspectives on Sexual and Racial Harassment Litigation – Martha Chamallas
52. Exit: Power and the Idea of Leaving in Love, Work, and the Confirmation Hearings – Martha R. Mahoney
Part IV: Reproduction
Section 6: Motherhood and Reproductive Control
A. Motherhood
Introduction
53. M Is for the Many Things – Carol Sanger
54. Punishing Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy – Dorothy E. Roberts
55. The Colonization of the Womb – Nancy Ehrenreich
56. Sapphire Bound! Regina Austin; Child Abuse: A Problem for Feminist Theory – Marie Ashe and Naomi Cahn
B. Abortion
Introduction
57. Roe v. Wade
58. The Struggle for Reproductive Freedom: Three Stages of Feminism – Linda Gordon
59. A Defense of Abortion – Judith Jarvis Thomson
60. Privacy v. Equality: Beyond Roe v. Wade – Catharine A. MacKinnon
61. Reasoning from the Body: A Historical Perspective on Abortion Regulation and Questions of Equal Protection – Reva Siegal
62. Reproductive Laws, Women of Color, and Low-Income – Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson
63. An Equal Protection Analysis of United States Reproductive Health Policy: Gender, Race, Age, and Class – Ruth Colker
64. Reproductive Freedom and Violence Against Women: Where are the Intersections? – Lori L. Heise
C. Reproductive Technologies and Adoption
Introduction
65. In the Matter of Baby M, Society's Response to the New Reproductive Technologies: The Feminist Perspective – Norma J. Wikler
66. Surrogate Motherhood: The Challenge for Feminists – Lori Andrews
67. The Ethics and Economics of Enforcing Contracts of Surrogate Motherhood – Richard A. Posner
68. Junk Liberty – Gena Corea
69. The Black Surrogate Mother – Anita Allen
70. Market Inalienability – Margaret Jane Radin
71. A Feminist Analysis of Adoption – Nancy E. Dowd
Table of Cases
Index
Contributors
