![]() ![]() She takes us to Bosnia–Herzogovina for a harrowing look at how the wholesale rape and murder of women and girls there was an act of genocide, not a side effect of war. MacKinnon takes us inside the workings of nation-states, where the oppression of women defines community life and distributes power in society and government. And she points toward fresh ways-social, legal, and political-of targeting its toxic orthodoxies. ![]() Taking her gendered critique of the state to the international plane, ranging widely intellectually and concretely, she exposes the consequences and significance of the systematic maltreatment of women and its systemic condonation. The cutting edge is where law and culture hurts, which is where MacKinnon operates in these essays on the transnational status and treatment of women. More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? If women were regarded as human, would they be sold into sexual slavery worldwide veiled, silenced, and imprisoned in homes bred, and worked as menials for little or no pay stoned for sex outside marriage or burned within it mutilated genitally, impoverished economically, and mired in illiteracy-all as a matter of course and without effective recourse? ![]()
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