Female Body and the Law

The Female Body and the Law provides an original and incisive reexamination of the dynamics of sexual equality. Eisenstein contends that sexual inequality is fostered both by the law and by the insistence that men and women are biologically different. Through a fascinating discussion of a series of issues including affirmative action, AIDS, Baby M, pornography, and abortion, Eisenstein shows how the law operates as a political language that establishes and curtails choices and actions.

The Female Body and the Law

Eisenstein, Zillah R.

Reference

Univ. Of California Pr.

The Female Body and the Law provides an original and incisive reexamination of the dynamics of sexual equality. Eisenstein contends that sexual inequality is fostered both by the law and by the insistence that men and women are biologically different. Through a fascinating discussion of a series of issues including affirmative action, AIDS, Baby M, pornography, and abortion, Eisenstein shows how the law operates as a political language that establishes and curtails choices and actions.

University of California Press

This sequel to the author's "The Female Body and the Law" explores American sexual and racial politics of the 1980s from a feminist's point of view. It argues that new concepts of individual privacy and sexual rights for women are necessary in contemporary democratic societies.

The Color of Gender: Reimaging Democracy

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

In this provocative volume, Zillah Eisenstein uncovers the hidden sexual and racial politics of the past decade. Beginning where she left off in her award-winning book The Female Body and the Law, Eisenstein takes the reader on a feminist-inspired road trip, traveling from the thicket of recent abortion decisions to the revolutions of 1989 to the murky chambers of the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings. Along the way, she enunciates a wholly original conception of individual privacy and sexual rights. Eisenstein brings a range of topics to her discussion: the L.A. riots, crack babies, Murphy Brown, political correctness, the 1992 presidential election, the Gulf War. She seeks to redirect our thinking about democracy away from universal conceptions that mask racial and gender oppression to the specific realities of women and people of color. A respect for multiple differences―as represented in the needs of women of color and their bodies―is, she says, essential to inclusive universal rights. Reproductive freedoms and sexual equality, not abstract notions of civil liberties, provide the wellsprings of a meaningful democratic life. Using this perspective to evaluate the Eastern European revolutions of 1989, Eisenstein finds that the separation between their ideals and the reality of the market system illustrates the failings of democratic theory, especially for women. Eisenstein's controversial arguments will provoke a rethinking of what race and gender mean today.

The Female Body and the Law provides an original and incisive reexamination of the dynamics of sexual equality. Eisenstein contends that sexual inequality is fostered both by the law and by the insistence that men and women are biologically different. Through a fascinating discussion of a series of issues including affirmative action, AIDS, Baby M, pornography, and abortion, Eisenstein shows how the law operates as a political language that establishes and curtails choices and actions. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The radical future of liberal feminism (Longman series in feminist theory)

Women's Studies

Longman

The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism (Longman Series in Feminist Theory)

Longman Publishing Group

Fourteen provocative papers on the oppression of women in capitalist countries, along with three articles on the subordinate position of women in two communist countries, Cuba and China. These important, often path-breaking articles are arranged in five basic sections, the titles of which indicate the broad range of issues being considered: Introduction; motherhood, reproduction, and male supremacy; socialist feminist historical analysis; patriarchy in revolutionary society; socialist feminism in the United States. The underlying thrust of the book is toward integrating the central ideas of radical feminist thought with those pivotal for Marxist or socialist class analysis.

Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism

Sociology

Monthly Review+press

Feminism and Sexual Equality: Crisis in Liberal America

Feminism and Sexual Equality: Crisis in Liberal American

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The Female Body and the Law

The Female Body and the Law

The Color of Gender: Reimaging Democracy

The Color of Gender: Reimaging Democracy

Female Body and the Law

The radical future of liberal feminism (Longman series in feminist theory)

The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism (Longman Series in Feminist Theory)

Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism

Feminism and Sexual Equality: Crisis in Liberal America

Feminism and Sexual Equality: Crisis in Liberal American