Butterfly Politics / / 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 ge...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (504 p.) |
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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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
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. |