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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 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.

Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987)

Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission.

Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory (1982)

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