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Catharine MacKinnon

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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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“Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission.”

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Book:Toward a Feminist Theory of the State

Source: Toward a Feminist Theory of the State

“Women are raped and coerced into sex.”

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“Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.”

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Book:Only Words

Source: Only Words

“Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.”

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Book:Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law

Source: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law

“Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.”

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Author:Catharine MacKinnon

“In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.”

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Book:Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law

Source: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law

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Born: October 7, 1946
Known for: Lawyer
Quotes: 34

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