The imaginary domain : abortion, pornography & sexual harassment / Drucilla Cornell.

  • Cornell, Drucilla
Date:
1995
  • Books

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Description

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.

Publication/Creation

New York : Routledge, 1995.

Physical description

xii, 292 pages ; 24 cm

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Related material

This item was donated as part of The Women's Health Library archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference SA/WHL https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fjg4s86y

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-283) and index.

Contents

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

Notes

Copy 1. Donor: This item was originally held in the Women's Health Library. It was donated to Wellcome in 2016 by the Feminist Library, which acted as temporary custodian following the closure of Women's Health in 2006.
Copy 1. Former Women's Health Library shelfmark: Politics.

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ISBN

  • 0415906008
  • 9780415906005
  • 0415911605
  • 9780415911603