SOURCE: Farrell, Susan A. “Differentiation and Stratification: Age Groups, Class, Gender, Race, and Ethnic Groups.” Contemporary Sociology 20, no. 3 (May 1991): 350-51.

In the following review, Farrell regards Toward a Feminist Theory of the State as a valuable study for both feminist theorists and sociologists with an interest in feminist legal theory.

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State is Catharine MacKinnon's newest addition to her continuing project of creating feminist theory. This work in progress contains some previously published essays (the first one is derived from “Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory,” which was published in Signs and has become a feminist “classic”). However, here, as in her earlier Feminism Unmodified (1987), MacKinnon not only attempts to integrate feminist theory into social theorizing on law and the state, but she allows us to participate in this project by reading her work as it develops. This reading...