Ebook {Epub PDF} Only Words by Catharine A. MacKinnon

In Only Words, [MacKinnon] presents the most lucid and concise presentation of her argument that porn is more than just words Her argument is making significant legal inroads and, to understand where she would like to take us, Only Words provides a clear road map. San Francisco ChroniclePrice: $  · Readers of The New Criterion will remember Catharine A. MacKinnon. We reviewed her new book, Only Words, in our October issue, under the headline “Sex in the Twilight Zone.” Among the many fruity things that Professor MacKinnon propounds in Only Words is the idea that pornography is a form of rape and should be punished as such. “To say it is to do it,” she assures readers, “and to . Catharine A. MacKinnon is Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. By declaring pornography more than "only words", she has placed it out of the protection of First Amendment law on freedom of expression. This argument leads to /5(21).

This triad -- First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, and the equivalence of word and act -- is played out throughout "Only Words", along with the repeated invocation of porn films, rape, sexual harassment at work, and racial epithets. In the end the book becomes a torture to read. But its influence is undeniable. From Wikipedia: Only Words is a book by Catharine MacKinnon. In this work of feminist legal theory, MacKinnon contends that the U.S. legal system has used a First Amendment basis to protect intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination as enacted through pornography, violating the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth. Find Only Words by Catharine a MacKinnon at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers.

"Only Words" is a powerful indictment of a legal system at odds with itself, its First Amendment promoting the very inequalities its Fourteenth Amendment is supposed to end. In the bold and compelling style that has made her one of our most provocative legal critics, MacKinnon depicts a society caught in a vicious hypocrisy. Catharine A. MacKinnon is Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Only Words is a powerful indictment of a legal system at odds with itself, its First Amendment promoting the very inequalities its Fourteenth Amendment is supposed to end. In the bold and compelling style that has made her one of our most provocative legal critics, MacKinnon depicts a society caught in a vicious hypocrisy.