Examines the issues that affect women pornography, prostitution, battery, rape, pay equity, sexual harassment, motherhood, abortion, adoption, reproductive technologies and considers them through the lens of feminist legal theory. This book features more than sixty articles by well-known legal scholars and feminists.

This book, the second of two volumes, examines the pressing issues that affect women pornography, prostitution, battery, rape, pay equity, sexual harassment, motherhood, abortion, adoption, new reproductive technologies and considers them through the lens of feminist legal theory. It features more than sixty articles by well-known legal scholars and feminists. The contributions are arranged thematically and include an introduction and comprehensive literature review by the editor. "Applications of Feminist Legal Theory to Women's Lives" will be a valuable text for students, a resource for scholars and policy makers, and a useful introduction for general readers. D. Kelly Weisberg is Professor of Law at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. She has published several other books, including "Child, Family and State: Cases and Materials on Children and the Law" (co-authored with Robert Mnookin).

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
Kimberle 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