A review by katnissevergreen
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law by Catharine A. MacKinnon

4.0

"In this light, a right to privacy looks like an injury got up as a gift. Freedom from public intervention coexists uneasily with any right that requires social preconditions to be meaningfully delivered."

"The tenses and levels get mixed by an underlying biologism through which sexuality is part of the natural world first, the social world incidentally, the political world only when the state gets involved. Audiences want to affirm that the sexuality for which we need what we do not have - a society of sex equality - already exists and merely needs to be unearthed."