More by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
Are Women Human?: and Other International Dialogues (2006)
"Women are raped and coerced into sex."
Reflections on Sex Equality under Law (1991)
Male sexuality is apparently activated by violence against women and expresses itself in violence against women to a significant extent.
Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: "Pleasure under Patriarchy (1989)
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.
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987)
Women fake vaginal orgasms, the only 'mature' sexuality, because men demand that they enjoy vaginal penetration.
Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: "Pleasure under Patriarchy (1989)
Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987)
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.
Are Women Human?: and Other International Dialogues (2006)
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.
Are Women Human?: and Other International Dialogues (2006)
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