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Butterfly politics

MacKinnon, Catharine A.2017
Books
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
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