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Also known as Catharine Alice MacKinnon, Catherine A. MacKinnon

American feminist and legal activist

Person · Open Library

Works
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Top works

  • Only Words
  • Heide Hatry Heads And Tales Twentyseven Stories And Twentyseven Portraits
  • Pornography and Civil Rights

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1976-04-30

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Catharine MacKinnon is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. She would probably be surprised to be listed as an artist on last.fm <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Catharine+MacKinnon">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated. You might think that's too broad. I'm not talking about sending all of you men to jail for that. I'm talking about attempting to change the nature of the relations between women and men by having women ask ourselves: "Did I feel violated?" To me, part of the culture of sexual inequality that makes women not report rape is that the definition of rape is not based on our sense of our violation.
  • In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of "sex"; they were not coerced enough.
  • In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.
  • To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
  • Show me an abuse of women in society, I'll show it to you made sex in the pornography. If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world. You will find them being hurt in just that way.
  • We are stripped of authority and reduced and devaluated and silenced. Silenced here means that the purposes of the First Amendment, premised upon conditions presumed and promoted by protecting free speech, do not pertain to women because they are not our conditions. Consider them: individual self-fulfillment – how does pornography promote our individual self-fulfillment? How does sexual inequality even permit it? Even if she can form words, who listens to a woman with a penis in her mouth?

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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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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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Catharine MacKinnon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.