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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 A. MacKinnon Are Women Human?: and Other International Dialogues (2006)

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In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.

Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987)

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

Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.

Only Words (1993)

In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of "sex"; they were not coerced enough.

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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.

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