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
Catharine MacKinnon quotes about
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.
christian men feminist
The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.
believe men radical-feminism
Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.
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.
men mouths want
Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.
men use denial
Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.
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.
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.
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.
genocide perpetrators postmodernism
Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
names feminism opinion
In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.
individuality alternatives may
An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.
feminist feminism sexuality
Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism...