Catharine MacKinnon

found themselves advocating in the public sphere. They were actively taking place in petitioning congress and even began publicly speaking out against slavery, a taboo act of the time to say the least. An act that did not go unopposed as can be seen Catharine Beecher’s letter to Angelina Grimké, an anti-slavery activist (Beecher, pp. 242-243). “Heaven has appointed to one sex the superior,” she claimed, “and to the other the subordinate station, and this without any reference to the character or…

have ‘usurped women’s language in order to further define the world in the male image’ . She argues that inequalities on the basis of are considered to be simple legal mistake and male hegemony to be irrational in an otherwise rational existence . MacKinnon considers the ‘different voice’ of women to be constructed in response to the patriarchy. Cultural feminists, within feminist commentary, are considered to be ‘moderate’, as cultural feminist theories compliment traditional norms and…

of analysis, method of practice and theory of social change of the women's movement . Catharine MacKinnon describes the process of consciousness raising as "the collective critical reconstruction of the meaning of women's social experience, as women live through it " This means that women, as a collective being and not as individuals, explore and express their experiences of suppression etc. According to MacKinnon, women's powerlessness has been found through consciousness raising to be both…

Radical feminists show evidence that women from the lowest socioeconomic classes, like low level of education, disadvantaged racial and ethnic minorities and impoverished women are the largest social group of women who are in prostitution. Catharine MacKinnon (1993), a radical feminist, once said during a speech “If prostitution is a free choice, why are the women with the fewest choices the ones most often found doing it?” She also argues that "In prostitution, women have sex with men they…

first great work to be accomplished for woman is to revolutionize the dogma that sex is a crime." Eighty-seven years after Stanton’s death, lawyer and radical feminist scholar Catharine MacKinnon published Toward a Feminist Theory of the State in which she confronts organized male dominance in the form of the state. MacKinnon views the elimination of pornography as essential to this effort because pornography is: "sex forced on real women so that it can be sold at a profit to be forced on…

form of discrimination and aggression the way sexual harassment is. And people have difficulty in getting a mental handle on this due only to the fact that they've frankly been brainwashed by the notion that {pornography} is speech (Mackinnon,1).” Dworkin and Mackinnon have a point when they say rape and pornography are violent social constructs used to oppress women and girls. What their theories lack is the fact that rape and porn are not the one and only violent tool used in male supremacy.…

The two notable sociologists, Ritzer and Goodman, argue the following contentious concept…“largely in American sociology, away from micro-macro extremism and toward a broad consensus that the focus, instead, should be on the integration (or synthesis, linkage) of… levels of social analysis. (485). In support, a linkage between to the two micro and macro aspects in sociology would be completely necessary when trying to get into contact with all of the main elements in sociology. For this reason,…

Despite these big organizations attempts to fight the pornography industry, the moment history will change is when everyone decides to take a stand against it. It’s important for the world to understand how the porn industry really works because it will help straighten our knowledge regarding this epidemic. The ignorance of the people is allowing human trafficking to pass by unnoticed. If this generation does nothing about this problem, then it would be as if they 're spitting in the face of…

This essay will attempt to expound on a number of difficulties regarding the concept of rape. The core objective will be to elucidate in detail the vast many interpretations of rape, specifically regarding gender differences amongst rape victims, often whereby men who commit such a heinous crime as rape are deemed upon as ‘monsters’, whilst when the ordeal is inflicted upon them, the severity and outlook of public speculation is lessened dramatically. As a result, this essay will highlight…

indorses violence contrary to females. The Anti-pornography Civil Rights Ordinance is a titled for numerous projected local regulations in the America and that was carefully related to the anti-pornography drastic feminists Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon. It planned to extravagance pornography as a defilement of females' constitutional rights and to permit the women that are harmed by pornography to pursue compensations through litigations in civil courts.…