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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Catharine MacKinnon"”.
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The feminist pornography debates: Civil rights v. civil liberties
… by antipornography feminists' Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, and as a result of its popularity, an opposing feminist organization, the Feminist Anti-Censorship Taskforce (FACT), initiated a public campaign against the ordinance and against feminist antiporn politics in general. The …
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Millennials Making Meanings: Social Constructions of Sexual Harassment regarding Gender and Power by Generation Y
… harassment was brought to light by legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon during the second wave feminist movement in the 1970s, and has since changed in its meaning over the past four decades, influencing policy, legal action, and the way we, as a society, treat this social problem. Millennials, or …
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Essays on Consent
… rights. Perhaps surprisingly, John Gardner, Catharine MacKinnon, and Tanya Palmer all deny the Commonsense View. According to their view, if sex is in some sense ideal, then each partner’s consent is unnecessary—that is to say, even absent each partner’s consent, neither partner infringes the …
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Feminist Theories of Autonomy and their Implications for Rape Law Reform
… responses to liberal theories, and lay out Catharine MacKinnon’s theory of dominance feminism. MacKinnon claims women have the capacity for autonomy, but pervasive systems of gender inequality do not allow them to exercise it. In chapter three, I discuss Kathryn Abrams’ theory of agency—a …
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Feminist Theories of Autonomy and their Implications for Rape Law Reform
… responses to liberal theories, and lay out Catharine MacKinnon’s theory of dominance feminism. MacKinnon claims women have the capacity for autonomy, but pervasive systems of gender inequality do not allow them to exercise it. In chapter three, I discuss Kathryn Abrams’ theory of agency—a …