Catharine Alice MacKinnon

Catharine MacKinnon in 2006.

Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, and the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. From 2008 to 2012, she was the special gender adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. She was among the first to argue that pornography is a civil rights violation, and that sexual harassment in education and employment constitutes sex discrimination.

MacKinnon argues that objectivity is masculine.

Quotes

"Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated."

“...to look at the world objectively is to objectify it.”

See Also

• Feminist quotes

External Links

• Redefining rape

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