Catharine MacKinnon

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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Wikidata facts

Image

Catharine MacKinnon, May 2006.jpg

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