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“... Catharine MacKinnon​ believes that sexualised domination and violence, by men over and against women, are at the root of sex inequality. The conviction at the centre of everything she writes is that men’s domination and violence are pervasive in contemporary societies, and that their pervasiveness is intimately linked to the pornography industry, which exploded in the 1980s and has been growing ever since ...”

“... Best known as an eloquent campaigner against pornography, Catharine MacKinnon is a lawyer – a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. Not all of this book (based on talks given at Princeton) sounds much like legal argument, and particularly when she is talking about pornography she gives a rhetorical display which may well have been breathtaking in the lecture hall ...”

“... wishes to forbid others desiring. Not even feminist critics of pornography like the philosopher Catharine MacKinnon actually want to censor pornography. ‘Censoring pornography would not delegitimise it; I want to delegitimise it.’ Besides, ‘censorship excites men a lot.’ So if not even the censorious will make a case for censorship, what is ...”

“... The official US publication date of this portfolio of Catharine MacKinnon’s articles and speeches over the past twenty-five years coincided with the release of Inside Deep Throat, a documentary about the making of the notorious and hugely profitable pornographic exploration of the lady with the lively larynx ...”

“... contact between men and women. The next step in the argument is most famously made in the work of Catharine MacKinnon, a professor of law and anti-pornography activist, and her co-polemicist, the novelist Andrea Dworkin. They and an army of feminist journalists, artists and scholars blame art, the media and language itself for reinforcing the patriarchal ...”

“... Canadian Supreme Court, invoking the rationale developed by Dworkin and her anti-porn collaborator Catharine MacKinnon in their effort to make pornographers liable to civil suits, expanded Canada’s obscenity laws to criminalise pornography that was violent, degrading or dehumanising. Within months, Canadian police seized copies of Bad Attitude, a ...”

“... and sociologists for at least a decade now, and they could easily have called on an expert such as Catharine Mackinnon (yet another Yale-trained lawyer) to give evidence to the Senate on the general issues involved. Instead, both sides took it for granted that sexual harassment is simply about sexual desire causing havoc in the workplace, and hauled in ...”

“... large part by her chosen sparring partners: Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Marx, John Rawls, Amartya Sen, Catharine MacKinnon, Andrea Dworkin, Susan Moller Okin. Though some of the nudging she gives feminists – typically referred to in Sex and Social Justice as ‘them’ but in the more recent Women and Human Development as ‘my fellow feminists’ – is ...”

“... erotics of racial and colonial oppression are important exceptions.) Beginning in the late 1970s, Catharine MacKinnon demanded that we abandon the Freudian view of sexual desire as ‘an innate primary natural prepolitical unconditioned drive divided along the biological gender line’ and recognise that sex under patriarchy is inherently violent; that ...”

“... the pre-feminist phases of egalitarian politics, well. But it has done rather little for women. As Catharine MacKinnon has pointed out, to do violence to a woman has, until very recently, been looked on not as offering violence to a sovereign, but rather to a subject whose sovereign (her father, her husband, her pimp) might take offence. Moral philosophy ...”

“... of no consequence, like having a tooth pulled. He quotes feminist jurists like Robin West and Catharine MacKinnon, who deny that abortion is merely the destruction of a nuisance, or that the foetus is an organism with no value of its own. Most regard abortion as a serious issue and think it a pity, a matter for considerable regret, when a foetus is ...”

“... you think about it; but what you think about yourself.Atwood wasn’t alone. Elaine Showalter, Catharine MacKinnon, Robin Morgan and Susan Griffin were among her admirers. Reporting on the crowd that descended on a women’s bookstore when Rich gave a reading in New York, Holladay says that she ‘was welcomed as a sort of ...”

“... in Britain, in which he tells some of the story behind the committee; and on Catharine MacKinnon’s discussion of the tangle that Americans get into with constitutional amendments guaranteeing free speech and ‘equal protection’, a review in which he cuts MacKinnon free from some tangles of her ...”

“... graduate student once complained to me and my co-convenor that we had not put a content warning on Catharine MacKinnon’s ‘Feminism, Marxism, Method and the State’, even though we had at the start of the course issued a blanket policy that permitted students to skip any class meeting, without explanation – which we had done in recognition that the ...”

“... this. We did not choose to embody a scene of such contention, but doing so is its own preparation. Catharine Mackinnon posed the question in 1983: ‘Why should women not make life or death decisions?’ In the Nation, Sophie Lewis defended abortion as killing: ‘When we withdraw from gestating, we stop the life of the product of our gestational ...”