The demand for excessive freedom is a curious thing. Beginning in wholesale rebellion against restraint, it soon sets about erecting its own restraints—often harsher and more irrational than those it ...

Catharine MacKinnon discussed her latest book, “Butterfly Politics,” which deals with gender inequality and sexual assault, in Hardin Hall of the Rebecca Crown Center Thursday afternoon. The event was ...

Content warning: This article includes several mentions of rape and sexual assault. Legal scholar and author Catharine MacKinnon critiqued the legal construct of consent in a lecture entitled “Sexual ...

Thursday afternoon, more than 300 people attended Law professor Catharine A. MacKinnon’s lecture titled “Sexual Harassment: The Law, the Politics and the Movement.” The lecture focused on feminist ...

The Supreme Court agreed with Catharine A. MacKinnon. In its first case involving sexual harassment in 1986, with MacKinnon as co-counsel, the court ruled unanimously that sexual harassment is sex ...

Before the ratification of the 19th Amendment 100 years ago, which granted some women won the right to vote, the Constitution was written as if women “didn’t exist.” That’s how Catharine MacKinnon, a ...

As an activist and legal scholar, MacKinnon has been a prominent force in feminism since the mid-1970s, when she pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment. Her latest volume brings together 29 ...

From Women And Foreign Policy Roundtable Series and Women and Foreign Policy Program. The international debate on prostitution and sex trafficking continues as COVID-19 spreads, with the United ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Catharine MacKinnon is a Professor for Law in the University of Michigan with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1993 National Press Club ...

NEW YORK — Sexual harassment “was not considered anything you could do something about — that the law could help you do something about — until a book was written by a then-young woman named Kitty ...