Are Women Human?

More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, this book asks: Are women human yet?

Auteur

Catharine A. MacKinnon is Elizabeth A. 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.

Contenu

Introduction: Women's Status, Men's States I. THEORY VERSUS REALITY 1. On Torture 2. Human Rights and Global Violence against Women 3. Theory Is Not a Luxury 4. Are Women Human? 5. Postmodernism and Human Rights 6. The Promise of CEDAW's Optional Protocol II. STRUGGLES WITHIN STATES 7. Making Sex Equality Real 8. Misogyny's Cold Heart 9. On Sex and Violence: Introducing the Antipornography Ordinance in Sweden 10. Nationbuilding in Canada 11. Equality Remade: Violence against Women 12. Pornography's Empire 13. Sex Equality under the Constitution of India: Problems, Prospects, and "Personal Laws" III. THROUGH THE BOSNIAN LENS 14. Crimes of War, Crimes of Peace 15. Turning Rape into Pornography: Postmodern Genocide 16. Rape as Nationbuilding 17. From Auschwitz to Omarska, Nuremberg to the Hague 18. Rape, Genocide, and Women's Human Rights 19. Gender-Based Crimes in Humanitarian Law 20. War Crimes Remedies at the National Level 21. Collective Harms under the Alien Tort Statute: A Cautionary Note on Class Actions 22. Genocide's Sexuality IV. ON THE CUTTING EDGE 23. Defining Rape Internationally: A Commentary on Akayesu 24. Pornography as Trafficking 25. Women's September 11th: Rethinking the International Law of Conflict Notes Index