Butterfly Politics - Changing the World for Women, with a New Preface
Author(s): Catharine A. Mackinnon
A Times Higher Education Book of the Week
Under certain conditions, the right small simple actions can produce large and complex "butterfly effects," as the #MeToo movement has shown. Thirty years after Catharine A. MacKinnon won the U.S. Supreme Court case establishing sexual harassment in law, this timely collection captures MacKinnon in action: the creative and transformative activism of an icon. Butterfly Politics provides the grounding for #MeToo, explains its momentum, and proposes more legal interventions that could have further butterfly effects on women's rights.
"Sexual Harassment of Working Women was a revelation. It showed how this anti-discrimination law--Title VII--could be used as a tool... It was the beginning of a field that didn't exist until then."
--Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"MacKinnon adapts a concept from chaos theory to show how] small actions can produce major social transformations."
--New York Times
"MacKinnon is radical, passionate, incorruptible and a beautiful literary stylist... Butterfly Politics is a devastating salvo fired in the gender wars."
--The Australian
"MacKinnon is encouraging...precise engagement, principled creativity, imagination, instinct and adaptability: small actions in a collective context producing systemic changes."
--Lawfare
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Harvard University Press
- : The Belknap Press
- : 0.666
- : 01 March 2019
- : 1.5 Centimeters X 14 Centimeters X 21 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : 528
- : Paperback
- : Catharine A. Mackinnon