Butterfly politics
MacKinnon, Catharine A.2017
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The author argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural changes. "The theme of this book is intervening in the process of social change through legal change. The book consists of 28 chapters with introductory and concluding essays by Catharine MacKinnon. All develop the author's signature theme: that one cannot think that the way the law approaches things is all there is to knowing about them. The focus of the argument is that some wrongs (to women) may not yet be intelligible as legal wrongs, and that social problems (of oppression) may yet have no adequate legal approa
Main title:
Butterfly politics / Catharine A. MacKinnon.
Author:
MacKinnon, Catharine A., author
Imprint:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
Collation:
490 pages ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-471) and index.
ISBN:
9780674416604
Language:
English
Subject:
Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation -- United States -- HistorySexual harassment -- Law and legislation -- United States -- HistoryRape -- Law and legislation -- United States -- HistoryPornography -- Law and legislation -- United States -- HistoryWomen's rights -- United States -- HistoryFeminist jurisprudence -- United States
BRN:
2510442
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