Sex Wars Redux: Agency and Coercion in Feminist Legal Theory

Abstract

What consequences flow from characterizing women as pervasively constructed by male aggression?Over the past decade, dominance feminism' has become the ascendant feminist legal theory, shaping the socially transformative legal claim for sexual harassment 2 and helping women see the systematic oppression cloaked and perpetuated under the guise of legal neutrality.This same decade, however, has witnessed the emergence and re-emergence of a feminist critique of the dominance approach.Speaking sometimes as stark antagonists, and sometimes as supportive critics, these feminists have questioned the implications of dominance-based depictions for the ways that women are viewed by themselves and by others.The first challenge to dominance feminism emerged in the "sex wars" of the 1980s.In this effort, a vivid and varied group of feminist scholars and activists challenged the emerging feminist anti-pornography

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