In a world where women pervasively suffer violence, however, it takes the fierceness of good theory to move us a little closer to peace., Catherine A. This book is indeed fierce, unrelenting in its naming of abuse and hypocrisy. MacKinnon's central theme, repeatedly and convincingly mined, is the hypocrisy of the international system when it faces up to some crimes against humanity but fails to confront similar harms when they happen to women, often on a daily basis.Are Women Human? is a major contribution both to feminism and to international law.By casting herself as a peace-builder, MacKinnon issues a pointed challenge to her adversaries, who boringly stereotype her as a fierce amazon on the warpath against male liberties. As elsewhere in MacKinnon's work, we find plenty of trenchant and eloquent writing but we also find more systematic analysis and more extensive scholarship than we sometimes get, and the book is the richer for it. Unsettling in the best sort of way, Are Women Human? shows to be not only a prodigiously creative feminist thinker who can see the world from a fresh angle like nobody else (and I mean the angle of reality, as opposed to the usual one of half-reality) but also one of our most creative thinkers about international law.
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