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]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (504 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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