Reddit reviews Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues

MacKinnon recently asked a similar question:

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?

(Conclusion: MacKinnon says 'Yes', patriarchy says 'No'. MacKinnon and patriarchy in irreconcilable difference of views, round #4,761. :P)

see also: Are Women Human? by Catharine MacKinnon (2006)

and Are Women People? by Alice Duer Miller (1915)

The title comes from this book.

From the blurb "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? "