Auteur: MacKinnon Catharine A. MacKinnon

More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine Mac Kinnon asks: Are women human yet? If women were regarded as …

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 Mac Kinnon contends, is neither speech …

The minuscule motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Under the right conditions, small simple actions can produce large complex effects. In …

When it was published twenty-five years ago, Catharine Mac Kinnon’s pathbreaking work Sexual Harassment of Working Women had a major impact on the development of sexual harassment law. The U.S. …

In the past twenty-five years, no one has been more instrumental than Catharine Mac Kinnon in making equal rights real for women. As Peter Jennings once put it, more than anyone else in legal studies …

"Sometimes ideas change the world. This astonishing, miraculous, shattering, inspiring book captures the origins and the arc of the movement for sex equality. It’s a book whose time has …