The Imaginary Domain: Abortion, Pornography and Sexual Harrassment

by Drucilla Cornell

Overview

This book addresses the legal and political programme needed for the recognition of sexual difference. Cornell shows that by affirming feminine sexual difference we should rethink the traditional conception of a public/private divide. This book fundamentally alters the terrain of feminist legal and political philosophy, and does so in a prose style that is lucid and accessible. Cornell defends a feminist view of legal equality that synchronizes the distinct values of freedom and equality in the emotionally fraught sphere of life we call sex. Feminist legal theory has been plagued by the seemingly irreconcilable tension between these two values, particularly when it comes to issues like pornography and sexual harassment where they have been explicitly pitted against one another.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415911603
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/14/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Living Together: Psychic Space and the Demand for Sexual Equality; Chapter 2 Abortion: Dismembered Selves and Wandering Wombs; Chapter 3 Pornography: Pornography’s Temptation; Chapter 4 Sexual Harassment: Sexual Freedom and the Unleashing of Women’s Desire; Conclusion: Why Law?;