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Catharine Alice MacKinnon ist eine US-amerikanische feministische Aktivistin, Anwältin und Professorin für Rechtswissenschaft.

Sie gehört zu den wichtigsten Vertreterinnen des so genannten Radikalfeminismus und beeinflusste diese Strömung der Frauenbewegung maßgeblich. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. Oktober 1946
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“Women fake vaginal orgasms, the only 'mature' sexuality, because men demand that they enjoy vaginal penetration.”

Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: "Pleasure under Patriarchy" (1989) Ethics, Vol. 99, No. 2 pp. 314-346

“So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.”

"Postmodernism and Human Rights" (2000), p. 53
Are Women Human?: and Other International Dialogues (2006)

“To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.”

"Francis Biddle's Sister: Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech" (1984), p. 170
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987)

“All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.”

The allegation that Catharine MacKinnon equated sex with rape, or suggested that all sex is hostile, seems to have been first made in the October 1986 issue of Playboy. Catharine MacKinnon has denied ever saying anything of the kind. http://www.snopes.com/quotes/mackinno.htm
Instead MacKinnon asserts that rape and intercourse are "difficult to distinguish" (1983), and that "the major distinction between intercourse (normal) and rape (abnormal) is that the normal happens so often that one cannot get anyone to see anything wrong with it" (1989).
Misattributed

“In a patriarchal society all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent.”

These words were quoted by the conservative writer Cal Thomas as coming from Professing Feminism, a book by Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge which he mistakenly ascribed to Catharine MacKinnon.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/mackinno.htm

The actual passage in that book are the authors' characterization of MacKinnon's views rather than a direct quotation: And Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon have long argued that in a patriarchal society all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not in a strong enough social position to give meaningful consent—an assault on individual female autonomy uncannily reminiscent of old arguments for why women should not have political rights.


Instead MacKinnon argues that heterosexuality "institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission" (1982) and that "Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial" (1991).
Misattributed

“Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in [sic] the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of Feminism.”

Falsely attributed to Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (First Harvard University Press, 1989), p. 10 in "Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means", US House of Representatives, , and spread on the Internet.
Probably based on the quotation opening Chapter 1: "Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism." — Heidi Hartmann and Amy Bridges, "The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism"
Misattributed

“Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.”

"A Rally Against Rape" (1981), p. 82
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987)

“Male sexuality is apparently activated by violence against women and expresses itself in violence against women to a significant extent.”

Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: "Pleasure under Patriarchy" (1989) Ethics, Vol. 99, No. 2 pp. 314-346

“Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.”

"Postmodernism and Human Rights" (2000), p. 62
Are Women Human?: and Other International Dialogues (2006)

“In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of "sex"; they were not coerced enough.”

"Sex and Violence: A Perspective" (1981), p. 88
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987)

“Compare victims' reports of rape with women's reports of sex. They look a lot alike”

Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: "Pleasure under Patriarchy" (1989) Ethics, Vol. 99, No. 2 pp. 314-346

“Women are raped and coerced into sex.”

Quelle: Reflections on Sex Equality under Law (1991) Yale Law Journal Vol.100 No. 5, p. 1213

“In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.”

"Desire and Power: A Feminist Perspective" (1983), p. 60
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987)

“Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?”

"Postmodernism and Human Rights" (2000), p. 58
Are Women Human?: and Other International Dialogues (2006)

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