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feminism. Catharine MacKinnon has emerged as one of the more vocal and persistent advocates of the need for a feminist account of law. Marginalization is an ever-present danger, and her rhetorical fervour has helped to seize and focus attention on the feminist assault on law. We need to be clear about what we mean when we talk of a feminist ...
May 14, 1944 (age 80) Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Occupation (s) actor, singer. Catherine McKinnon (born May 14, 1944) [1] is a Canadian actress and folk /pop singer.
Catharine MacKinnon’s first book was the pioneering study, Sexual Harassment of Working Women. The book contains her analysis of harassment, which was taken up by a U.S. Court of Appeals in ...
Catharine A. MacKinnon is a lawyer, teacher, writer, activist, and expert on sex equality. She has a B.A. from Smith College (1968), a J.D. from Yale Law School (1977), and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University Graduate School (1987). She has been Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School since 1990, and Visiting ...
Oct 19, 2023 · Scholarly analyses of Catharine MacKinnon’s influence on US jurisprudence regarding sexual harassment focus almost exclusively on Title VII law. Little attention has been paid to Title IX and Alexander v. Yale, wherein lawyers for the plaintiffs used her theories to argue—successfully—a bold claim: that sexual harassment within educational institutions was sex discrimination, and thus ...
Only Words. Catharine A. MacKinnon. Paperback. eBook. ISBN 9780674639348. Publication date: 03/01/1996. When is rape not a crime? When it's pornography--or so First Amendment law seems to say: in film, a rape becomes "free speech." Pornography, Catharine MacKinnon contends, is neither speech nor free.
Sep 6, 2021 · Catharine A. MacKinnon is a lawyer, scholar, writer, teacher and activist. She teaches law at the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School and works for sexually violated people around the globe.
