Only Words

Name: Only Words
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ISBN: 9780674639348

ISBN-10: 0674639340

ISBN-13: 9780674639348

Edition: 1993

Authors: Catharine A. MacKinnon

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When is rape not a crime? When it's pornography--or so First Amendment law seems to say: in film, a rape becomes "free speech." Pornography, Catharine MacKinnon contends, is neither speech nor free. Pornography, racial and sexual harassment, and hate speech are acts of intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination, and should be legally treated as such. 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. Words…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Catharine A. MacKinnon is Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.




Defamation And Discrimination



Racial And Sexual Harassment



Equality And Speech


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