Butterfly Politics / / Catharine A. MacKinnon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: MacKinnon, Catharine A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (504 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Butterfly Politics --; I. Change --; 1. To Change the World for Women --; 2. A Radical Act of Hope --; 3. Law’s Power --; 4. To Quash a Lie --; 5. The Measure of What Matters --; 6. Intervening for Sex Equality --; II. Law --; 7. Introduction, Symposium on Sexual Harassment --; 8. Sexual Harassment: Supreme Court Brief for Mechelle Vinson --; 9. Testimony on Pornography, Minneapolis --; 10. Testimony to the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography --; 11. Substantive Equality --; 12. On Torture --; 13. Rape as Genocide: Appellate Argument in Kadic v. Karadžić --; 14. Rape as Genocide: Summation to the Jury in Kadic v. Karadžić --; 15. Trafficking, Prostitution, and Inequality --; III. Culture --; 16. Reality, Not Fantasy --; 17. To the American Civil Liberties Union on Pornography --; 18. X-Underrated --; 19. Gender: The Future --; IV. Academy --; 20. Gender Literacy --; 21. Mainstreaming Feminism in Legal Education --; 22. On Academic Freedom: From Powerlessness to Power --; 23. Engaged Scholarship as Method and Vocation --; 24. Defying Gravity --; V. Toward an Equal Future --; 25. Rape Redefined --; 26. Restoring Institutional Accountability for Educational Sexual Harassment --; 27. Toward a Renewed Equal Rights Amendment: Now More Than Ever --; 28. Sex Equality in Global Perspective --; Intervening for Change, 1976–2016 --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674977761; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674977761
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Catharine A. MacKinnon.

The miniscule motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Catharine A. MacKinnon’s collected work on gender inequality—including new pieces—argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural transformations.