Catharine mackinnon biography sample

Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born 7 October1946) is an American radical feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher, and activist.

Quotes

Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory (1982) Signs Vol. 7, No.3

• 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.

Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence (1983) Signs Vol. 8 No. 4

• ”Perhaps the wrong of rape has proven so difficult to articulate because the unquestionable starting point has been that rape is definable as distinct from intercourse, when for women it is difficult to distinguish them under conditions of male dominance.”

Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987)

• Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it take