Applications Of Feminist Legal Theory To Women's Lives : Sex, Violence, Work, And Reproduction - 96 edition

Weisberg, D. Kelly : Hastings College

D. Kelly Weisberg is professor of law at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.

Section I. Pornography

Introduction - D. Kelly Weisberg * Against the Male Flood: Censorship, Pornography, and Equality - Andrea Dworkin * Not a Moral Issue, in Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law - Catharine A. MacKinnon * Francis Biddle's Sister: Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech - Catharine A. MacKinnon * Pornography and the First Amendment: A Reply to Professor MacKinnon - Thomas I. Emerson * Whose Right? Ronald Dworkin, Women and Pornographers - Rae Langton * American Booksellers Association v. Hudnut * Butler v. The Queen * Brief Amici Curiae of Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force et al., in American Booksellers Association v. Hudnut - Nan D. Hunter and Sylvia A. Law - A Feminist Critique of ''The'' Feminist Critique of Pornography - Nadine Strossen * Sex, Sin, and Women's Liberation: Against Porn-Suppression - Carlin Meyer * The Difference in Women's Hedonic Lives: A Phenomenological Critique of Feminist Legal Theory - Robin West

Section II: Prostitution

Introduction - D. Kelly Weisberg * Male Vice and Female Virtue: Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Judith R. Walkowitz * Charges Against Prostitution: An Attempt at a Philosophical Assessment - Lars O. Ericsson * Defending Prostitution - Carole Pateman * Prostitution and Civil Rights - Catharine A. MacKinnon * The Feminist Debate over Prostitution Reform - Jody Freeman * A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto - Mary Jo Frug * Split at the Root: Prostitution and Feminist Discourses of Law Reform - Margaret A. Baldwin

Section III. Battered Women

Introduction - D. Kelly Weisberg * The Roots of the Battered Women's Movement: Personal and Political - Susan Schechter * State v. Wanrow * Describing and Changing: Women's Self-Defense Work and the Problem of Expert Testimony on Battering - Elizabeth M. Schneider * Women's Experience and the Problem of Transition: Perspectives on Male Battering of Women - Christine A. Littleton * Legal Images of Battered Women: Redefining the Issues of Separation - Martha R. Mahoney * Whose Story Is It, Anyway? En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas and the Construction of Social Reality - Kimberlé Crenshaw * Lavender Bruises - Ruthann Robson * The Violence of Privacy Rape - Elizabeth M. Schneider

Section IV. Rape

Introduction - D. Kelly Weisberg * Rape: The All-American Crime - Susan Griffin * Rape - Susan Estrich * Michael M. v. Superior Court Statutory Rape: A Feminist Critique of Rights Analysis - Frances Olsen * ''Rape: On Coercion and Consent'' - Catharine A. MacKinnon * Date Rape - Lois Pineau * Rape, Racism and the Law - Jennifer Wriggens * Equality Theory, Marital Rape, and the Promise of the Fourteenth Amendment - Robin West

Section V. Employment
Part A: Work-Family Conflict, Occupational Segregation and Comparable Worth

Introduction - D. Kelly Weisberg * Work and Family: The Gender Paradox and the Limitations of Discrimination Analysis in Restructuring the Workplace - Nancy E. Dowd * Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Sears, Roebuck and Company, 628 F. Supp. 1264 (N.D. Ill. 1986) * Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Sears, Roebuck and Company, 839 F. 2d 302. (7th Cir., 1988): EEOC v. Sears: A Personal Account - Alice Kessler-Harris * Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: Or the Uses of Post-Structuralist Theory of Feminism - Joan Scott * Deconstructing Gender - Joan Williams * Telling Stories about Women and Work: Judicial Interpretation of Sex Segregation in the Workplace - Vicki Schultz * Feminizing Unions: Challenging the Gendered Structure of Wage Labor - Marion G. Crain * Comparable Worth and Its Impact on Black Women - Julianne Malveaux * Barriers Facing Women in the Wage-Labor Market and the Need for Additional Remedies - Mary E. Becker; Social Construction of Skill, Ronnie J. Steinberg

Part B: Sexual Harassment

Introduction - D. Kelly Weisberg * Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson * Ellison v. Brady, 924 F. 2d 872 (8th Cir. 1991) * Sex at Work - Susan Estrich * What's the Big Deal? Women in New York City Construction Industry and Sexual Harassment Law, 1970-1985 - Elvia R. Arriola * Employer Abuse, Worker Resistance, and the Tort of Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress - Regina Austin * Feminist Constructions of Objectivity: Multiple Perspectives on Sexual and Racial Harassment Litigation - Martha Chamallas * Exit: Power and the Idea of Leaving in Love, Work, and the Confirmation Hearings - Martha R. Mahoney

Section VI. Motherhood and Reproductive Control
Part A: Motherhood

Introduction - D. Kelly Weisberg * M Is for the Many Things - Carol Sanger * Punishing Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy - Dorothy E. Roberts * The Colonization of the Womb - Nancy Ehrenreich * Sapphire Bound! Regina Austin; Child Abuse: A Problem for Feminist Theory - Marie Ashe and Naomi Cahn

Part B. Abortion

Introduction - D. Kelly Weisberg * Roe v. Wade--The Struggle for Reproductive Freedom: Three Stages of Feminism - Linda Gordon * A Defense of Abortion - Judith Jarvis Thomson * Privacy v. Equality: Beyond Roe v. Wade - Catharine A. MacKinnon * Reasoning from the Body: A Historical Perspective on Abortion Regulation and Questions of Equal Protection - Reva Siegal * Reproductive Laws, Women of Color, and Low-Income - Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson * An Equal Protection Analysis of United States Reproductive Health Policy: Gender, Race, Age, and Class - Ruth Colker * Reproductive Freedom and Violence Against Women: Where are the Intersections? - Lori L. Heise

Part C. Reproductive Technologies and Adoption

Introduction - D. Kelly Weisberg * In the Matter of Baby M, Society's Response to the New Reproductive Technologies: The Feminist Perspective - Norma J. Wikler * Surrogate Motherhood: The Challenge for Feminists - Lori Andrews * The Ethics and Economics of Enforcing Contracts of Surrogate Motherhood - Richard A. Posner * Junk Liberty - Gena Corea * The Black Surrogate Mother - Anita Allen * Market Inalienability - Margaret Jane Radin * A Feminist Analysis of Adoption - Nancy E. Dowd