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Book Review: Hiding from Humanity

privileged white women (or any particular women's experience) as the archetype of womanhood, MacKinnon focuses on those women who have the fewest choices and who are most vulnerable to injury from pornography. This approach sets her apart from many feminists who refuse to engage with the stories of the victimized women of pornography, the same women whose realities constitute the substance of MacKinnon's ideas. In fact, nowhere in Women's Lives, Men's Laws does MacKinnon essentialize women's experiences. She recognizes with acuity women's diversity, even when she theorizes about women as a class. She also realizes that women's diversity does not change the fact that women, regardless of whatever other forms of discrimination they may face, are treated as unequal and discriminated against as women. While this collection is an important addition to feminist legal theory and is rich with ideas drawn from the diversity of women's experience, MacKinnon's treats women's sexuality insufficiently. In discussing sex, MacKinnon concentrates on men's sexuality and views male dominance and female submissiveness as the static sex paradigm. Her powerful polemic does not allow her the room to acknowledge any form of women's sexuality untainted by insidious male dominance and female submission. MacKinnon holds that '[s~exuality is the set of practices that inscribes gender as unequal in social life.' (275) Sexuality and gender inequality are undeniably intertwined; MacKinnon, however, takes this thought too far by mistaking the linkage between gender inequality and sex as inextricable. This mistake is not innocuous; it precludes her from exploring not only whether the expression of female sexuality on women's own terms is possible, but also whether it is something that is valuable in its own right. While MacKinnon fails to address these issues ofwomen's sexuality in her scholarship generally and in Women's Lives, Men's Laws specifically, this collection is nonetheless an invaluable addition to feminist legal theory and affirms MacKinnon's place in the canon of feminist scholarship.