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.
The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent. - Catharine Mackinnon
The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.
- Catharine Mackinnon
Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism. - Catharine Mackinnon
Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.
Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male… - Catharine Mackinnon
Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male…
Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were … - Catharine Mackinnon
Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were …
Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated. - Catharine Mackinnon
Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.
If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality. - Catharine Mackinnon
If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.
Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexu… - Catharine Mackinnon
Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexu…
Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men. - Catharine Mackinnon
Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.
You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs. - Catharine Mackinnon
You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.
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