Feminism Quotes by Catharine MacKinnon

8 Feminism quotes by Catharine MacKinnon

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Catharine MacKinnon’s feminist voice is captured in eight brief statements. This compact collection offers a clear sense of her stance, making it easy to grasp her core ideas.

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Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

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In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.

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The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male,…

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Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism...

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Women are raped and coerced into sex.

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Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

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It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

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Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered,…

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So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is…

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Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male…

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“Division may be rational or irrational. Dominance either seems or is justified. Difference is.”

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Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of…

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Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is…

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If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and…

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