Ebook {Epub PDF} Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A. MacKinnon

 · 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? She exposes the consequences and significance of the systematic maltreatment of women and its systemic condonation as she points toward fresh ways of targeting its toxic orthodoxies. Fadwa Rizek rated it liked it. These were a series of essays by a prominent women's rights attorney, Catherine MacKinnon, on a theme: the treatment of women internationally and locally-- from genocidal rapes in Eastern Europe to pornography within the United States. Though lacking cohesion and at times, coherency in the overall /5(15). 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 /5(2).

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A law professor at the University of Michigan, she is, as one reviewer notes, 'a famously polarizing figure' A new collection of MacKinnon's speeches and writings, Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues takes note of the political work she has done in Canada, the U.S., and abroad, and asserts her recent approach to accountability in the global human rights arena. Discussing ritualized forms of violence conducted by military forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina and other regions, she. A new collection of MacKinnon’s speeches and writings, Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues takes note of the political work she has done in Canada, the U.S., and abroad, and asserts her recent approach to accountability in the global human rights arena. Discussing ritualized forms of violence conducted by military forces in Bosnia–Herzegovina and other regions, she argues that international human rights measures can be applied to halt such forms of violence against women. Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues, Catharine A. MacKinnon (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, ), pp., $ cloth. In April , Catharine MacKinnon was interviewed about her new book, Are Women Human?, for BBC Radio 4’s “Woman’s Hour.”.