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Sociology of law --- Feminism --- Human body --- Sex differences. --- Sex discrimination against women --- Women --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- United States --- Sex discrimination against women - Law and legislation - United States. --- Women - Legal status, laws, etc. - United States. --- Body, Human - Law and legislation - United States. --- Feminism - United States.

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In this provocative volume, Zillah Eisenstein uncovers the hidden sexual and racial politics of the past decade. Beginning where she left off in her award-winning book The Female Body and the Law, Eisenstein takes the reader on a feminist-inspired road trip, traveling from the thicket of recent abortion decisions to the revolutions of 1989 to the murky chambers of the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings. Along the way, she enunciates a wholly original conception of individual privacy and sexual rights. Eisenstein brings a range of topics to her discussion: the L.A. riots, crack babies, Murphy Brown, political correctness, the 1992 presidential election, the Gulf War. She seeks to redirect our thinking about democracy away from universal conceptions that mask racial and gender oppression to the specific realities of women and people of color. A respect for multiple differences--as represented in the needs of women of color and their bodies--is, she says, essential to inclusive universal rights. Reproductive freedoms and sexual equality, not abstract notions of civil liberties, provide the wellsprings of a meaningful democratic life. Using this perspective to evaluate the Eastern European revolutions of 1989, Eisenstein finds that the separation between their ideals and the reality of the market system illustrates the failings of democratic theory, especially for women. Eisenstein's controversial arguments will provoke a rethinking of what race and gender mean today.

Sexism. --- Racism. --- Patriarchy. --- Democracy. --- Feminism. --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Self-government --- Androcracy --- Patriarchal families --- Bias, Racial --- Race bias --- Race prejudice --- Racial bias --- Sex bias --- Emancipation --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Fathers --- Families --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Patrilineal kinship --- Prejudices --- Anti-racism --- Race relations --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Social perception --- Sex role --- Critical race theory --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Ethics of family. Ethics of sexuality --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Social policy --- Political systems --- Infectious diseases. Communicable diseases --- Gynaecology. Obstetrics --- Eastern and Central Europe --- United States --- United States of America --- Feminism --- Aids --- Liberalism --- Government policy --- Patriarchy --- Racism --- Book --- Abortion --- Democracy

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"In this book, Zillah Eisenstein continues her unforgiving indictment of neoliberal imperial politics. She charts its most recent militarist and masculinist configurations through discussions of the Afghan and Iraq wars, violations at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, the 2004 US Presidential electron, and Hurricane Katrina."--Jacket.

Women's rights. --- Feminism. --- Women --- Gender studies: women --- Political activity.