Catharine MacKinnon
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American feminist and legal activist
Key facts
- Born
- Catharine Alice MacKinnon , ( 1946-10-07 ) October 7, 1946 (age 79) , Minneapolis , Minnesota , U.S.
- Education
- Smith College ( BA ), Yale University ( MSL , JD , PhD )
- Doctoral advisor
- Robert Dahl
- Other advisor
- Thomas I. Emerson
- Discipline
- Legal scholar
- School or tradition
- Radical feminism , feminist legal theory
- Institutions
- University of Michigan , York University , University of Minnesota
- Notable ideas
- Sexual harassment as sex discrimination
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- cisgender woman
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Minneapolis
- Father
- George MacKinnon
- Occupation
- feminist
- Educated at
- Yale University
- Employer
- York University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Robert A. Dahl
- Student of
- Robert A. Dahl
- Field of work
- genocide studies
- Image
- Catharine MacKinnon, May 2006.jpg
- Political ideology
- feminism
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- date of birth
- 1946-10-07
- name in native language
- Catharine Alice MacKinnon
- influenced by
- Martha Nussbaum
- interested in
- radical feminism
- Commons category
- Catharine A. MacKinnon
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Encyclopedic overview
Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, and the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. From 2008 to 2012, she was the first Special Gender Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
As an expert on international law, constitutional law, political and legal theory, and jurisprudence, MacKinnon focuses on women's rights and sexual abuse and exploitation, including sexual harassment, rape, prostitution, sex trafficking and pornography. She was among the first to argue that pornography is a civil rights violation, and that sexual harassment in education and employment constitutes sex discrimination.
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