Catharine MacKinnon
- Jurist
- Catharine MacKinnon
- School
- Feminist Jurisprudence (Dominance)
- Theory
- Dominance feminism; law as an instrument by which male power is institutionalised; gender is hierarchy, not difference; pioneer of sexual harassment as legal claim.
- Quote
Male dominance is perhaps the most pervasive and tenacious system of power in history.
- Books
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989), Feminism Unmodified (1987), Only Words (1993), Sexual Harassment of Working Women (1979)
- Propounded
Dominance Feminism; sexual harassment as sex discrimination; gender as hierarchy not difference
- Born
- 1946
- Portrait
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