Catharine MacKinnon

editions before is the Foreword written by Catharine A. MacKinnon and the Afterword by Rebecca Mead. Catharine is a well renown author and professor. She gives a point of view on the book that is more up to date and challenged what Millett was trying to say. For example, MacKinnon talks heavily on the sexual revolution and how it was for men rather than for women and the elimination of patriarchy. The point MacKinnon makes that is very prevalent is (MacKinnon, 2016, Location No. 167), “in light of

A WOMAN’S STRUGGLE In the two articles one by the UN and another one by Catharine MacKinnon who is an American feminist, scholar, lawyer and teacher both focus on the violation against women. The two articles agree on the increase in number of dowry murder, and the fact that women are used as war weapons. On the other side Mackinnon strictly talk about women; but the UN also talks about Violation of human rights in general. The following is a more detailed view about the two articles; In the UN article

Essays on Rape Only Words, by Catharine MacKinnon is a collection of three essays; each essay argues her claim that sexual words and pictures should be banned instead of Constitutionally protected under the First Amendment as free speech. In her first essay, “Defamation and Discrimination,” MacKinnon takes the stance that pornography is sex, and should not be treated as speech, but as a sexist act. She claims that pornography is an action, just as, “a sign saying ‘White Only’ is only words

For centuries, humans have been creating explicit images to depict their sexual fantasies and desires. Times have drastically changed, however, since the first known sex guide, Kama Sutra, was illustrated in 5th-century India (King 412). The selling of sexually explicit material is a multibillion dollar industry (King 411). Today, with just the click of a mouse, millions world-wide are able to access pornography and see their sexual fantasies come to life (King 418). According to King, “One third

widely-loved movies and television shows depict scenes of intense, non-consensual sexual violence (i.e., Game of Thrones, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, etc.). Contemporary scholars note that anti-porn works, such as those of Gail Dines, Catharine MacKinnon, and Karen Boyle, deny the power and agency of porn performers and women more generally, as sexualized bodies within the context of pornography (Allen 2001; Altimore 1991; Attwod 2005; Weitzer 2011). As a woman and a sexual being, I find these

She comments that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides not only formative but substantial protection from inequalities. Unlike the U.S., Mackinnon comments that the Canadian system seeks to alter the poor treatment of disadvantaged groups and amend their status.[6] The Court utilized this approach in the case of R v. Butler where it recognized that the “humiliation, degradation, and subordination

Andrea Dworkin and Catharine A. Mackinnon(Feminist Perspectives), are just two of the women that have stood up against pornography. There are a plethora of feminist see pornography as a way to keep women oppressed and subjected to man. Almost as if porn is taking women in a step backwards.Mackinnon believes porn is an act of sexual violence (McElroy) and Dworkin sees it as sexist and a “deliberate means of subordinating women to men” (Feminist Perspectives). Dworkin and Mackinnon collectively view

lawyers during the 1970’s in order to defend the female victims of these sexual encounters. The challenge for lawyers and activists, such as Catharine MacKinnon and Lin Farley, was to persuade the American judiciary that sexual harassment is a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, “discrimination on the basis of sex” (Siegel, 2004). MacKinnon and Farley did their part in aiding in defining and acknowledging sexual harassment in the American judiciary. During the 1970’s however,

Pornography and Feminist Fight for Women’s Rights There was a complaint in 1992 about having The Nude Maja in a classroom. The complaint came from a feminist English professor who stated that the painting made her students, as well as herself, uncomfortable. Another incident occurred at the University of Arizona when a female student’s photographic artwork consisting of self portraits in her underwear was physically attacked by feminists. There was also an occurrence at University of Michigan

If, as many suppose, pornography changes people, a question arises as to how. 1 One answer to this question offers a grand and noble vision. Inspired by the idea that pornography is speech, and inspired by a certain liberal ideal about the point of speech in political life, some theorists say that pornography contributes to that liberal ideal: pornography, even at its most violent and misogynistic, and even at its most harmful, is political speech that aims to express certain views about the good