Catharine MacKinnon is a distinguished lawyer and feminist scholar recognized for her work on women's rights and sexual harassment law. Born on October 7, 1946, she has made significant contributions to the legal and academic fields, particularly in advocating for gender equality and challenging patriarchal norms.
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“we know things with our lives and we live that knowledge, beyond what any theory has theorized.”
Source: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law
Source: Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
Source: Only Words
“Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.”
“If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.”
“Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?”
Source: Are Women Human?
“Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.”
Source: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law
Source: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law
Source: Only Words
“Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.”
Source: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law
Source: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law
“Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.”
Source: Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
Source: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law
Source: Only Words
Source: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law
“In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.”
Source: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law
Source: Are Women Human?
Source: Are Women Human?
Source: Are Women Human?
“People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.”