Preface

Part I: Sexuality

Section 1: Pornography 
Introduction 
1. Against the Male Flood: Censorship, Pornography, and Equality – Andrea Dworkin 
2. Not a Moral Issue, in Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law – Catharine A. MacKinnon 
3. Francis Biddle's Sister: Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech – Catharine A. MacKinnon 
4. Pornography and the First Amendment: A Reply to Professor MacKinnon – Thomas I. Emerson 
5. Whose Right? Ronald Dworkin, Women and Pornographers – Rae Langton 
6. American Booksellers Association, Inc. v. Hudnut 
7. Butler v. The Queen 
8. Brief Amici Curiae of Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force et al., in American Booksellers Association v. Hudnut – Nan D. Hunter and Sylvia A. Law 
9. A Feminist Critique of "The" Feminist Critique of Pornography – Nadine Strossen 
10. Sex, Sin, and Women's Liberation: Against Porn-Suppression – Carlin Meyer 
11. The Difference in Women's Hedonic Lives: A Phenomenological Critique of Feminist Legal Theory – Robin West

Section 2: Prostitution 
Introduction 
12. Male Vice and Female Virtue: Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain – Judith R. Walkowitz 
13. Charges Against Prostitution: An Attempt at a Philosophical Assessment – Lars O. Ericsson 
14. Defending Prostitution – Carole Pateman 
15. Prostitution and Civil Rights – Catharine A. MacKinnon 
16. The Feminist Debate over Prostitution Reform – Jody Freeman 
17. A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto – Mary Jo Frug 
18. Split at the Root: Prostitution and Feminist Discourses of Law Reform – Margaret A. Baldwin

Part II: Violence

Section 3: Battered Women 
Introduction 
19. The Roots of the Battered Women's Movement: Personal and Political – Susan Schechter 
20. State v. Wanrow 
21. Describing and Changing: Women's Self-Defense Work and the Problem of Expert Testimony on Battering – Elizabeth M. Schneider 
22. Women's Experience and the Problem of Transition: Perspectives on Male Battering of Women – Christine A. Littleton 
23. Legal Images of Battered Women: Redefining the Issues of Separation – Martha R. Mahoney 
24. Whose Story Is It, Anyway? En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas and the Construction of Social Reality – Kimberlé Crenshaw 
25. Lavender Bruises – Ruthann Robson 
26. The Violence of Privacy Rape – Elizabeth M. Schneider

Section 4: Rape 
Introduction 
27. Rape: The All-American Crime – Susan Griffin 
28. Rape – Susan Estrich 
29. Michael M. v. Superior Court 
30. Statutory Rape: A Feminist Critique of Rights Analysis – Frances Olsen 
31. "Rape: On Coercion and Consent" – Catharine A. MacKinnon 
32. Date Rape – Lois Pineau 
33. Rape, Racism and the Law – Jennifer Wriggens 
34. Equality Theory, Marital Rape, and the Promise of the Fourteenth Amendment – Robin West

Part III: Employment

Section 5: Employment

A. Work-Family Conflict, Occupational Segregation and Comparable Worth 
Introduction 
35. Work and Family: The Gender Paradox and the Limitations of Discrimination Analysis in Restructuring the Workplace – Nancy E. Dowd 
36. EEOC v. Sears, Roebuck and Company 
37. EEOC v. Sears, Roebuck and Company (Appellate Opinion) 
38. EEOC v. Sears: A Personal Account – Alice Kessler-Harris 
39. Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: Or the Uses of Post-Structuralist Theory of Feminism – Joan Scott 
40. Deconstructing Gender – Joan Williams 
41. Telling Stories about Women and Work: Judicial Interpretation of Sex Segregation in the Workplace – Vicki Schultz 
42. Feminizing Unions: Challenging the Gendered Structure of Wage Labor – Marion G. Crain 
43. Comparable Worth and Its Impact on Black Women – Julianne Malveaux 
44. Barriers Facing Women in the Wage-Labor Market and the Need for Additional Remedies – Mary E. Becker 
45. Social Construction of Skill: Gender, Power, and Comparable Worth – Ronnie J. Steinberg

B. Sexual Harassment 
Introduction 
46. Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson 
47. Ellison v. Brady 
48. Sex at Work – Susan Estrich 
49. What's the Big Deal? Women in New York City Construction Industry and Sexual Harassment Law, 1970-1985 – Elvia R. Arriola 
50. Employer Abuse, Worker Resistance, and the Tort of Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress – Regina Austin 
51. Feminist Constructions of Objectivity: Multiple Perspectives on Sexual and Racial Harassment Litigation – Martha Chamallas 
52. Exit: Power and the Idea of Leaving in Love, Work, and the Confirmation Hearings – Martha R. Mahoney

Part IV: Reproduction

Section 6: Motherhood and Reproductive Control

A. Motherhood 
Introduction 
53. M Is for the Many Things – Carol Sanger 
54. Punishing Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy – Dorothy E. Roberts 
55. The Colonization of the Womb – Nancy Ehrenreich 
56. Sapphire Bound! Regina Austin; Child Abuse: A Problem for Feminist Theory – Marie Ashe and Naomi Cahn

B. Abortion 
Introduction 
57. Roe v. Wade 
58. The Struggle for Reproductive Freedom: Three Stages of Feminism – Linda Gordon 
59. A Defense of Abortion – Judith Jarvis Thomson 
60. Privacy v. Equality: Beyond Roe v. Wade – Catharine A. MacKinnon 
61. Reasoning from the Body: A Historical Perspective on Abortion Regulation and Questions of Equal Protection – Reva Siegal 
62. Reproductive Laws, Women of Color, and Low-Income – Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson 
63. An Equal Protection Analysis of United States Reproductive Health Policy: Gender, Race, Age, and Class – Ruth Colker 
64. Reproductive Freedom and Violence Against Women: Where are the Intersections? – Lori L. Heise

C. Reproductive Technologies and Adoption 
Introduction 
65. In the Matter of Baby M, Society's Response to the New Reproductive Technologies: The Feminist Perspective – Norma J. Wikler 
66. Surrogate Motherhood: The Challenge for Feminists – Lori Andrews 
67. The Ethics and Economics of Enforcing Contracts of Surrogate Motherhood – Richard A. Posner 
68. Junk Liberty – Gena Corea 
69. The Black Surrogate Mother – Anita Allen 
70. Market Inalienability – Margaret Jane Radin 
71. A Feminist Analysis of Adoption – Nancy E. Dowd

Table of Cases 
Index 
Contributors