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[Catharine A. MacKinnon] Ì Only Words ✓ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Only Words P. Mann said An academically unsound and very disappointing effort. [Note: This review deals almost exclusively with the first essay.]Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon is at once one of the brightest and most controversial feminist legal scholars today. She and Andrea Dworkin were instrumental in getting anti-pornography legislation enacted or considered in several towns and cities (though the legislation adopted was later declared unconstitutional). MacKinnon is also the person to whom the claim
| Title | : | Only Words |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.92 (818 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674639340 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-14 |
| Language | : | English |
Pornography, racial and sexual harassment, and hate speech are acts of intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination, and should be legally treated as such. Words that offer bribes or fix prices or segregate facilities are treated by law as acts, but words and pictures that victimize and target on the basis of race and sex are not. Cutting with surgical deftness through cases of harassment in the workplace and on college campuses, through First Amendment cases involving Nazis, Klansmen, and pornographers, MacKinnon shows that as long as discriminatory practices are protected as free speech, equality will be only a word.. When is rape not a crime? When it's pornography--or so First Amendment law seems to say: in film, a rape becomes "free speech." Pornography, Catharine MacKinnon contends, is neither speech nor free. What the "speech" of pornography and of racial and sexual harassment and hate propaganda does is promote and enact the power of one social group over another. In the bold and compelling style that has made her one of our most provocative legal critics, MacKinnon depicts a society caught in a vicious hypocrisy. Only Words is a powerful indictment of a legal system at odds with itself, its First Amendment promoting the very inequalities its Fourteenth Amendment is supposed to end. Pornography--an act of sexual domination reproduced in the viewing--is protected by law in the name of "the free and open exchan
MacKinnon, a Univeristy of Michigan law professor, believes that we need to balance First Amendment concerns for free speech with Fourteenth Amendment protection of equality. She advocates "a new model for freedom of expression in which free speech does not most readily protect the activities of Nazis, Klansmen, and pornorgraphers, while doing nothing for their victims." And she hails two recent decisions by Canada's Supreme Court which bolster the rights of persons harmed by pornography or hate propaganda. . MacKinnon counters that pornography and hate messages "do the same thing: enact the abuse." Porn, she argues, subordinates and degrades women and incites sexual harassers, wife beaters, child molesters, rapists and clients of prostitutes. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly In her most cogent and accessible book to date, feminist legal scholar Mac
P. Mann said An academically unsound and very disappointing effort. [Note: This review deals almost exclusively with the first essay.]Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon is at once one of the brightest and most controversial feminist legal scholars today. She and Andrea Dworkin were instrumental in getting anti-pornography legislation enacted or considered in several towns and cities (though the legislation adopted was later declared unconstitutional). MacKinnon is also the person to whom the claim that all sex is rape is most often attributed (probably unfairly). She is thus someone to whom much attention is, and should be, devoted."Only Words" is the sa. An important contribution to the debate over pornography. deseavers@mindspring.com This book is well worth reading. It crystallizes some of the issues at stake in this debate and offers solid legal analysis. Of course, one may disagree with MacKinnon's approach or solution, which are of a piece with her other writings; indeed, the issue she addresses seems intractable and certainly generates much controversy. Still, it is a significant work, and I recommend reading it in conjunction with MacKinnon's more recent publication, IN HARM'S WAY.. At least it makes you think a little Jennifer L Smith There is no denying that Only Words by Catharine A. MacKinnon is a controversial take on current American legal policy that is primarily fueled by radical feminist thought. She argues that the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States (you know, the one that, among other things, ensures equal rights) is completely disregarded in certain cases where the First Amendment is protected. To be specific, MacKinnon believes the pornography industry perpetuates inequality of women, which, in turn, perpetuates sexual discrimination and abuse. She also includes racial discrimination in her argume
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