ahhh - I worked in bookstores for 20+ years before I came to adult ad 
-- so I know a good many tricks.

Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues
By MacKinnon, Catharine A.
2006/04 - Hardcover
Belknap Press
0674021878
Our Price $35.00
(full description below)

Step 1: check our your local feminist bookstore ! -- or your local 
independent bookstore -- I know it's a rare breed now but they tend to 
be better than your average chain bookstore option.
(want a list of women's bookstores? go to: 
http://www.litwomen.org/WIP/stores.html --  it's a little out of date 
and I'm hoping to update it over the summer -- many of these places do 
mail order.) My personal favorite is Amazon Bookstores Cooperative in 
Minneapolis (oldest feminist bookstore in US - 36 years - and NOT 
related to the dot.com that stole it name - I used to be a cooperative 
owner)-- http://www.amazonbookstorecoop.com/

Step 2: get the isbn - any bookstore worth its name will be able to 
track on the isbn (international standard book number)

hint: if they are telling you they can't get it, they sometimes may not 
know what they're talking about -- or are too lazy to look for it or to 
order it! This book just came out in April so should still be around. 
This is a smaller academic press -- associated with Harvard --  so it 
may be more difficult to get than most - but not impossible. I checked 
with my colleagues in Minneapolis http://www.amazonbookstorecoop.com/  
- they don't have it in stock but were willing to order it for me.

Hope this all helps!
Mev
WE LEARN


Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues
By MacKinnon, Catharine A.

Publisher Comments

More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human 
Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine 
MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? If women were regarded as human, 
would they be sold into sexual slavery worldwide; veiled, silenced, and 
imprisoned in homes; bred, and worked as menials for little or no pay; 
stoned for sex outside marriage or burned within it; mutilated 
genitally, impoverished economically, and mired in illiteracy--all as a 
matter of course and without effective recourse?

The cutting edge is where law and culture hurts, which is where 
MacKinnon operates in these essays on the transnational status and 
treatment of women. Taking her gendered critique of the state to the 
international plane, ranging widely intellectually and concretely, she 
exposes the consequences and significance of the systematic 
maltreatment of women and its systemic condonation. And she points 
toward fresh ways--social, legal, and political--of targeting its toxic 
orthodoxies.

MacKinnon takes us inside the workings of nation-states, where the 
oppression of women defines community life and distributes power in 
society and government. She takes us to Bosnia-Herzogovina for a 
harrowing look at how the wholesale rape and murder of women and girls 
there was an act of genocide, not a side effect of war. She takes us 
into the heart of the international law of conflict to ask--and 
reveal--why the international community can rally against terrorists' 
violence, but not against violence against women. A critique of the 
transnational status quo that also envisions the transforming 
possibilities of human rights, this bracing book makes us look as never 
before at anongoing war too long undeclared.


On Tuesday, June 27, 2006, at 09:51  AM, OLC wrote:


> Daphne...I have searched around for this book and have not found it at

> Borders, Waldenbooks or elsewhere. They all say it is not available. 

> Where

> can you get it?  Reader @wcoil.com    Rose Marie

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "Daphne Greenberg" <ALCDGG at langate.gsu.edu>

> To: <womenliteracy at nifl.gov>

> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:39 AM

> Subject: [WomenLiteracy 344] Re: women and literacy reading group

>

>

>> Bonnie and others-

>> feel free to look for the book. But if we want to do a book 

>> discussion on

>> this listserv, we will need to go through a process where we figure 

>> out

>> when/how to run it, who will run it, and which book/article we all 

>> want to

>> read. Ideally, I would like to focus on our women and numeracy issue 

>> right

>> now, because we have a guest facilitator who can only be with us for 

>> the

>> next two weeks. I know that many of you have expressed an interest in

>> discussing numeracy on this listserv with an expert, so here is our

>> chance. However, if people want to pursue a the idea of a book 

>> discussion

>> now, I am open to that.

>> Daphne

>>

>>

>>>>> bfreeman at famlit.org 6/20/2006 11:30 AM >>>

>> I have had experience.  Not online however it can't be to difficult.

>> I'll look for this book.

>>

>>

>> Bonnie Lash Freeman

>> Director - Training/Special Projects

>> National Center for Family Literacy

>> 325 W Main St Suite 300

>> Louisville, KY 40202

>> 502 584 1133 ext 115

>> bfreeman at famlit.org

>>

>> -----Original Message-----

>> From: womenliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov

>> [mailto:womenliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Andrea Wilder

>> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 5:37 PM

>> To: The Women and Literacy Discussion List

>> Subject: [WomenLiteracy 328] Re: women and literacy reading group

>>

>> Bonnie et al,

>>

>> The first book I'd like to suggest is by Catherine MacKinnon, "Are 

>> Women

>> Human?'  I've talked about this book on the list before, as I bought 

>> it

>> after hearing MacKinnon, but I would like to read it WITH other 

>> people.

>> has anyone here had experience with leading a book discussion?  She 

>> is a

>> lawyer with an international clientele, very lucid speaker, very

>> thoughtful, very respectful of audience questions.

>>

>> What do others think?

>>

>> Andrea

>> On Jun 18, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Bonnie Freeman wrote:

>>

>>> Andrea,

>>> Have you created a book list as yet?

>>> Bonnie

>>>

>>>

>>> Bonnie Lash Freeman

>>> Director - Training/Special Projects

>>> National Center for Family Literacy

>>> 325 W Main St Suite 300

>>> Louisville, KY 40202

>>> 502 584 1133 ext 115

>>> bfreeman at famlit.org

>>>

>>> -----Original Message-----

>>> From: womenliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov

>>> [mailto:womenliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Andrea Wilder

>>> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 9:27 AM

>>> To: The Women and Literacy Discussion List

>>> Subject: [WomenLiteracy 325] Re: women and literacy reading group

>>>

>>> Daphne,

>>>

>>> I'd sure like to be in a women/literacy group on this list serv.  

>>> What

>>

>>> do others think?

>>>

>>> Andrea

>>>

>>>

>>> On Jun 18, 2006, at 4:03 AM, Cuban, Sondra wrote:

>>>

>>>> Daphne, I've started a reading group on women writers and 

>>>> researchers

>>

>>>> on the topic of  women and literacy---so we'll read anything from

>>>> Anna

>>>

>>>> Robinson-Pant's work to Sapphire to the Oakland Readers series on

>>>> women. The group includes women lecturers, researchers, doctoral and

>>>> masters students from Education, Religious Studies, and, Educational

>>>> Research.  Everyone in the group is interested in issues related to

>>>> women and literacy from different angles. Thats what I mean. The

>>>> staff

>>>

>>>> learning centre at the university offers literacy courses to those

>>>> who

>>>

>>>> want literacy and language instruction. I think your idea of 

>>>> starting

>>

>>>> a women and literacy reading group for women literacy learners is a

>>>> good one. It would be different than what the staff centre

>>>> offers--using a reading group venue might be a lot of fun too. I'll

>>>> think about how that could work! Thanks, Sondra -----Original

>>>> Message-----

>>>> From: womenliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Daphne Greenberg

>>>> Sent: Sat 6/17/2006 6:53 PM

>>>> To: womenliteracy at nifl.gov

>>>> Subject: [WomenLiteracy 323]  women and literacy reading group

>>>>

>>>> Sondra,

>>>> When you say that you have started a women and literacy reading 

>>>> group

>>

>>>> at your university, what do you mean? Is this a group for women who

>>>> have difficulty reading that is held at the university, is it for

>>>> faculty/staff? How often does it mean and what happens in the group?

>>>> Thanks,

>>>> Daphne

>>>>

>>>> Daphne Greenberg

>>>> Assistant Professor

>>>> Educational Psych. & Special Ed.

>>>> Georgia State University

>>>> P.O. Box 3979

>>>> Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3979

>>>> phone: 404-651-0127

>>>> fax:404-651-4901

>>>> dgreenberg at gsu.edu

>>>>

>>>> Daphne Greenberg

>>>> Associate Director

>>>> Center for the Study of Adult Literacy Georgia State University P.O.

>>>> Box 3977 Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3977

>>>> phone: 404-651-0127

>>>> fax:404-651-4901

>>>> dgreenberg at gsu.edu

>>>>>>> s.cuban at lancaster.ac.uk 06/15/06 4:36 AM >>>

>>>> Hi Mev, Hi all,

>>>>

>>>> I was really sorry to miss the women and literacy conference this

>>>> past

>>>

>>>> year, ---- it looked fantastic!!! I am now living in England (and

>>>> Ujwala, if you are reading this, please call me!). I have started a

>>>> women and literacy reading group at my university, and would like to

>>>> do more....Are there others out there who can make some suggestions

>>>> about what an academic can do to create more women-literacy

>>>> knowledge-generating activities in or around her workplace and

>>>> community? Thanks and hope you are doing well! Sondra

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> -----Original Message-----

>>>> From: womenliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of mev at litwomen.org

>>>> Sent: Wed 6/14/2006 7:38 PM

>>>> To: NIFL Womenlit

>>>> Cc: NIFL Family; AAACE-NLA AAACE; NIFL ESL; nifl-Professional

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>>>>

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