The issue is lumping the entirety of sexual entertainment as porn, which I feel is what always got MacKinnon (and Andrea Dworkin and the rest of the Anti-Pron movement in the 70's and 80's) a whole lot of flak. ...

Enter Andrea Dworkin, Catherine MacKinnon, and the anti-porn movement. As Orwell illustrated in Animal Farm, the oppressed often turn into the exact kinds of oppressors who oppressed them when given similar positions of power, and thus, ...

Catherine MacKinnon noted legal scholar and feminist (she worked with Andrea Dworkin against pornography, she believes that women's equality trumps free speech--for how can there be free speech without equality) endorsed Obama in the ...

She created the concept that sexual violence violates equality rights, pioneering the legal claim for sexual harassment as sex discrimination and, with Andrea Dworkin, recognition of the harms of pornography as civil rights violations. ...

ME: An essay by Catherine MacKinnon. FLAPJACKS: Who’s she? ME: Radical feminist legal scholar. FLAPJACKS: How radical is “radical”? ME: She supported Andrea Dworkin’s assertion that all heterosexual sex can be defined as rape. ...

In the late 1970s, feminists such as Andrea Dworkin and Catherine A. MacKinnon offer a targeted attack on pornographic representations of women. Dworkin and MacKinnon, among others, see such representations as violent assaults on women ...

In 1983, Andrea and Catherine MacKinnon, a feminist constitutional law lawyer/professor, created an ordinance that recognized the fact that women’s equality rights were encumbered by pornography. In the Ordinance, pornography is defined ...

Regarding this post and comments made about Andrea Dworkin and Catherine MacKinnon: Oort sez: According to snopes and wikipedia, you’re wrong what she says.

the books by MacKinnon’s friend Andrea Dworkin. Simkin, Zelman, Rice, and Dworkin all write with an engaging, passionate style. They do not adopt an air of academic detachment; the intensity of their belief in ...

In the 1980s and ’90s, this position found its strongest supporters in Catherine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin whose crusade for censorship took inspiration from slogans like “pornography is the theory and rape is the practice”. ...