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
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.
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.
feminist feminism sexuality
Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism...
sexuality pornography ifs
If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.
sex misandry man-hater
Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.
sex men female
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.
sex children homeless
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.
sex couple radical-feminism
All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.
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.