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The Force of Words: Fish, Matsuda, MacKinnon, and the Theory of Discursive Violence

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Fish Stanley, There's No Such Thing as Free Speech … and It's a Good Thing, too. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. viii+332. $25.00.
MacKinnon Catharine A., Only Words. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993. Pp. 152. $14.95 paper.
Matsuda Mari J., Lawrence Charles R. III, Delgado Richard, and Crenshaw Kimberlé Williams, Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. Pp. viii+160. $46.50 cloth; $15.95 paper.

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Lawrence Douglas
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Law & Society Review , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , 1995 , pp. 169 - 190
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Copyright © 1995 by The Law and Society Association

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I am grateful to Frank Couvares, Austin Sarat, and Barbara Yngvesson for their helpful comments on an earlier draft.

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