More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? She exposes the consequences and significance of the systematic maltreatment of women and its systemic condonation as she points toward fresh ways of targeting its toxic orthodoxies. Introduction: Women's Status, Men's States 1(16) part one theory and reality On Torture (1990) 17(11) Human Rights and Global Violence Against Women (1992) 28(6) Theory Is Not a Luxury (1993) 34(7) Are Women Human? (1999) 41(3) Postmodernism and Human Rights (2000) 44(20) The Promise of CEDAW's Optional Protocol (2004) 64(7) part two struggles within states Making Sex Equality Real (1985) 71(6) Nationbuilding in Canada (1988) 77(9) Misogyny's Cold Heart (1987) 86(5) On Sex and Violence: Introducing the Antipornography Civil Rights Law in Sweden (1990) 91(14) Equality Remade: Violence Against Women (1991) 105(7) Pornography's Empire (1995) 112(8) Sex Equality Under the Constitution of India: Problems, Prospects, and ``Personal Laws'' (2006) 120(21) part three through the bosnian lens Crimes of War, Crimes of Peace (1993) 141(19) Turning Rape into Pornography: Postmodern Genocide (1993) 160(9) Rape as Nationbuilding (1994) 169(5) From Auschwitz to Omarska, Nuremberg to The Hague (1994) 174(6) Rape, Genocide, and Women's Human Rights (1994) 180(12) Gender-Based Crimes in Humanitarian Law (1997) 192(4) War Crimes Remedies at the National Level (1997) 196(6) Collective Harms Under the Alien Tort Statute: A Cautionary Note on Class Actions (1999) 202(7) Genocide's Sexuality (2005) 209(28) part four on the cutting edge Defining Rape Internationally: A Comment on Akayesu (2006) 237(10) Pornography as Trafficking (2005) 247(12) Women's September 11th: Rethinking the International Law of Conflict (2006) 259(22) Notes 281(126) Index 407