Catharine Alice MacKinnon Quotes

• Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

  Catharine Alice MacKinnon

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• In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or s*xual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

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• 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.

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• Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has s*x and feels violated.

  Catharine Alice MacKinnon

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• Men who are in prison for rape think it’s the dumbest thing that ever happened… they were put in jail for something very little different from what most men do most of the time and call it s*x. The only difference is they got caught. It may also be true.

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• 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.

  Catharine Alice MacKinnon

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• So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

  Catharine Alice MacKinnon

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• To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.

  Catharine Alice MacKinnon

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• What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence – a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

  Catharine Alice MacKinnon

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Catharine Alice MacKinnon (9)

Birth:	7th October, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Professor

About

Catharine Alice MacKinnon was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She  is an American activist, feminist, lawyer and professor. She  graduated in the top 2% of her class at Smith and earned a J.D. and a Ph.D. from Yale University. While at Yale Law School, she received a National Science Foundation fellowship. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. In 2007, she served as the Roscoe Pound Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

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