Catharine A. MacKinnon
Forfatter af Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
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Catharine A. MacKinnon is Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School
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Værker af Catharine A. MacKinnon
Prostitution and Civil Rights 1 eksemplar
Pornography 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millenium (2003) — Bidragyder — 198 eksemplarer
Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry (2011) — Bidragyder — 48 eksemplarer
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- MacKinnon, Catharine A.
- Juridisk navn
- MacKinnon, Catharine Alice
- Fødselsdato
- 1946-10-07
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- female
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- USA
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- Yale University (PhD|Political Science|1987)
Yale Law School (JD|1977)
Smith College (AB|Government|1969) - Erhverv
- professor (Law)
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- University of Michigan Law School
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Lifetime Achievement Award, Association of American Law Schools Women's Division (2014)
American Law Institute (2014)
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Pornography [also] engenders sex discrimination. By making a public spectacle and a public celebration of the worthlessness of women, by valuing women as sluts, by defining women according to our availability for sexual use, pornography makes all women’s social worthlessness into a public standard. Do you think such a being is likely to become Chairman of the Board? Vice President of the United States? Would you hire a “cunt” to represent you? Perform surgery on you? Run your university? Edit your broadcast? (p.48, emphasis mine)
Worth repeating.
And while we're on the topic ...
Andrea Dworkin addressing an audience of about 500 men …
“…why are you so slow? Why are you so slow to understand the simplest things; not the complicated ideological things. You understand those. The simple things. The
cliches. Simply that women are human to precisely the degree and quality that you are.
“It is an extraordinary thing to try to understand and confront why it is that men believe— and men do believe— that they have the right to rape. Men may not believe it when asked. Everybody raise your hand who believes you have the right to rape. Not too many hands will go up. It’s in life that men believe they have the right to force sex, which they don’t call rape. And it is an extraordinary thing to try to understand that men really believe that they have the right to hit and to hurt. And it is an equally extraordinary thing to try to understand that men really believe that they have the right to buy a woman’s body for the purpose of having sex: that that is a right. And it is very amazing to try to understand that men believe that the seven-billion- dollar-a-year industry that provides men with cunts is something that men have a right to.
“… men come to me or to other feminists and say: “What you’re saying about men isn’t true. It isn’t true of me. I don’t feel that way. I’m opposed to all of this. ”
And I say: don’t tell me. Tell the pornographers. Tell the pimps. Tell the warmakers. Tell the rape apologists and the rape celebrationists and the pro-rape ideologues. Tell the novelists who think that rape is wonderful. Tell Larry Flynt. Tell Hugh Hefner. There’s no point in telling me. I’m only a woman. There’s nothing I can do about it. These men presume to speak for you. They are in the public arena saying
that they represent you. If they don’t, then you had better let them know.
excerpts from “I Want A Twenty-four Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape”… (mere)