SOURCE: Hein, Hilda. “In Search of Equality.” Women's Review of Books 5, no. 1 (October 1987): 6-7.

In the following review, Hein delineates the major thematic concerns of the essays collected in Feminism Unmodified.

Catharine MacKinnon will be best known to readers of The Women's Review of Books for her work in feminist theory¹ and, with Andrea Dworkin, for her legislative campaign against pornography. Ordinances proposed by Dworkin and MacKinnon narrowly missed becoming law in both Minneapolis and Indianapolis and, had they been approved, would have radically transformed the law around pornography. I believe that MacKinnon's most important contribution to feminism lies in this intermediate area between theory and activism. Her incisive legal scholarship and innovative interpretation of legal concepts are already beginning to have an impact upon the slowly moving tide of precedent. A dozen years ago, as MacKinnon pointed out in her earlier book, Sexual Harassment of Working Women...