Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-306) and index

Introduction: The art of the impossible -- Not by law alone: a debate with Phyllis Schlafly -- Difference and domination: on sex discrimination -- Desire and power -- Whose culture?: a case note on Martinez v. Santa Clara Pueblo -- On exceptionality: women as women in law -- A rally against rape -- Sex and violence: a perspective -- Privacy v. equality: beyond Roe v. Wade -- Sexual harassment: its first decade in court -- Women, self-possession, and sport -- Linda's life and Andrea's work -- "More than simply a magazine": Playboy's money -- Not a moral issue -- Francis Biddle's sister: pornography, civil rights, and speech -- On collaboration -- The sexual politics of the First Amendment

"Catharine A. MacKinnon, noted feminist and legal scholar, explores and develops her original theories and practical proposals on sexual politics and law. These discourses, originally delivered as speeches, have been brilliantly woven into a book that retains all the spontaneity and accessibility of a live presentation. Through these engaged works on issues such as rape, abortion, athletics, sexual harassment, and pornography, MacKinnon seeks feminism on its own terms, unconstrained by the limits of prior traditions. She argues that viewing gender as a matter of sameness and difference--as virtually all existing theory and law have done--covers up the reality of gender, which is a system of social hierarchy, an imposed inequality of power"--Back cover