Catharine MacKinnon

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    The study of pornography is as old as time. Pornography comes from the Greek words for sexual slave, prostitute and depiction of. Initially, it had been a means for clarifying situations of personal servitude or the acquiring of intercource from women, both of which incorporated an awkwardness of force, for the most part between individuals. In the prior time, obscenity focused on prerequisites of mishandling and corruption in the place the of the goal of inspiring joy from the viewer. On…

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    “Both movements, coming from different points or origin, converge on a common project: the realization of a just society, but through, among many other things, a thorough reconstruction of the flawed theory of justice we have inherited, and which of necessity guides the effort” (West 217). Robin West discusses the law and literature movement, along with the feminine critique in the third chapter of her book, Caring For Justice. In her conclusion of chapter three, West outlines three structural…

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    It is a fundamental question feminist lawyer Catharine MacKinnon poses in her aptly-titled book, “Are Women Human?” Many proclamations of rights, such as France’s The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen state that “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights,” (The Declaration of the Rights…

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    Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century, African American women were limited with equal employment. An area of business that became common for African American women to make profit off was prostitution. This was controversial during the late nineteenth and early twentieth, as it is today. Prostitution not only deeply effects women, but it also has an impact on black America both past and present. Black women prostituting impacts the black community through the greater risks for diseases,…

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