Year: 1995
Type: article
Abstract: This essay is part of a larger project on tensions within feminist legal theory and practice.1.This theoretical framework has been called "dominance feminism.""Dominance feminism" is used "to describe that strand of feminist (legal) theory that locates gender oppression in the sexualized domination of women and the eroticization of that dominance through pornography and other aspects of popular culture.... Catharine MacKinnon would probably be described as the primary-and most visible-exponent of this theory" but there are a "range of feminists who have worked theoretically and, often through political practice, to raise consciousness about male sexualization of and aggression against women."Kathryn Abrams, Songs of Innocence and Experience: Dominance Feminism in the University, 103 YALE L.J. 1533, 1549 (1994) (reviewing KATIE ROIPHE, THE MORNING A]IFER (1993)).FEmINIM (Marianne Hirsch & Evelyn Keller eds., 1990), Nadine Taub, Thoughts on Living and Moving Wth the Recurring Divide, 24 GA.L. REV.965 (1990).For more recent examples of conflict on the theme of victimization and agency see infra note 26 and accompanying text; see also Tamar Lewin, Feminists Wonder Ifit Was Progress to Become 'Victims,' N.Y.TiEs, May 10, 1992, § 4, at 6. For an historical perspective on feminist conflict on a variety of different issues see generally, CONFucrs IN
Source: bepress Legal Repository
Author: Elizabeth M. Schneider
Language: English
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2577096265