Catharine MacKinnon
Catharine MacKinnon
Catharine Alice MacKinnonis an American radical feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher and activist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth7 October 1946
CountryUnited States of America
growing-up pain father
You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.
growing-up pain father
Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent you learn, in a word, femininity.
color people great-men
In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.
powerful law united-states
Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.
reality should existence
The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.
giving defense violence
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
people relation
People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.
sex violence enough
In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.
men feminist world
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
facts nonsense assault
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
sex
Women are raped and coerced into sex.
sex moving men
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.
able genius decent
Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
mean abuse done
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.