This collection brings together previously uncollected and unpublished work in the national arena from 1980 to the present, defining a clear, coherent, consistent approach to reframing the law of men on the basis of the lives of women.

Originally published: 2005.

Introduction : realizing law -- pt. 1. Equality re-envisioned -- section A. Women's lives under men's laws -- 1. Unthinking ERA thinking -- 2. From practice to theory, or what is a white woman anyway? -- 3. Law in the everyday life of women -- 4. Toward a new theory of equality -- 5. Law's stories as reality and politics -- 6. "Freedom from unreal loyalties" : on fidelity in constitutional interpretation -- 7. What Brown v. Board of Education should have said -- 8. Keeping it real : on anti-"essentialism" -- 9. Of mice and men : a fragment on animal rights -- 10. The power to change -- section B. Sexual abuse as sex inequality -- 11. Sexual harassment : the first five years -- 12. Reflections on sex equality under law -- 13. Prostitution and civil rights -- 14. The logic of experience : the development of sexual harassment law -- 15. On accountability for sexual harassment -- 16. Beyond moralism : directions in sexual harassment law -- 17. Disputing male sovereignty : on United States v. Morrison -- 18. Unequal sex : a sex equality approach to sexual assault -- pt. 2. Sexuality, inequality, and speech -- section A. Theory and practice -- 19. Sex, lies, and psychotherapy -- 20. Liberalism and the death of feminism -- 21. Does sexuality have a history? -- 22. Speaking truth to power -- 23. Mediating reality -- section B. Pornography as sex inequality -- 24. Civil rights against pornography -- 25. Pornography as defamation and discrimination -- 26. Pornography left and right -- 27. From silence to silence : violence against women in America -- 28. Vindication and resistance -- 29. The roar on the other side of silence.