Butterfly Politics : Changing the World for Women, with a New Preface.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacKinnon, Catharine A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Sex discrimination against women.

Sexual harassment--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Sexual harassment.

Rape--United States--History.

Rape.

Rape--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Pornography--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Pornography.

Women's rights--United States--History.

Women's rights.

Feminist jurisprudence--United States.

Feminist jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (505 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Under certain conditions, small simple actions can produce large and complex "butterfly effects." Butterfly Politics shows how Catharine A. MacKinnon turned discrimination law into an effective tool against sexual abuse--grounding and predicting the worldwide #MeToo movement--and proposes concrete steps that could have further butterfly effects on women's rights. Thirty years after she won the U.S. Supreme Court case establishing sexual harassment as illegal, this timely collection of her previously unpublished interventions on consent, rape, and the politics of gender equality captures in action the creative and transformative activism of an icon. -- Back cover.

Contents:

To change the world for women (1980)

A radical act of hope (1989)

Law's power (1990)

To quash a lie (1991)

The measure of what matters (1992)

Intervening for sex equality (2013)

Introduction, symposium on sexual harassment (1981)

Sexual harassment Supreme Court brief for Mechelle Vinson (1986)

Testimony on pornography, Minneapolis (1983)

Testimony to the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (1985)

Substantive equality (1989)

On torture (1990)

Rape as genocide : appellate argument in Kadic v. Karadžić (1995)

Rape as genocide : summation to the jury in Kadic v. Karadžić (2000)

Trafficking, prostitution, and inequality (2015)

Reality not fantasy (1985)

To the American Civil Liberties Union on pornography (1985)

X-Underrated (2005)

Gender : the future (2007)

Gender literacy (1994)

Mainstreaming feminism in legal education (2003)

On academic freedom : from powerlessness to power (2002)

Engaged scholarship as method and vocation (2005)

Defying gravity (2013)

Rape redefined (2014)

Restoring institutional accountability for educational sexual harassment (2013)

Toward a renewed Equal Rights Amendment : now more than ever (2014)

Sex equality in global perspective (2015).

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780674293687

OCLC:

1405925997