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Catharine A. MacKinnon · 1989
A foundational feminist theoretical work that analyzes the relationship between gender hierarchy, knowledge, and political power, synthesizing feminist and Marxist approaches to examine how the state enforces male dominance through law and sexuality.
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What this book knows
Male dominance operates through sexuality and law together; neither Marxism nor liberalism can explain women's subordination without feminist method.
erotic-as-power
Perhaps they learn this process of sexualized dominance as sex. Top-down relations feel sexual.
TFTS-RC-150It is not irrational for women to see themselves in a way that makes their necessary compliance tolerable, even satisfying.
TFTS-RC-104obedience-and-authority
Women know the male world is out there because it hits them in the face. No matter how they think about it, it remains independently.
TFTS-RC-126Class power produces gender power. Marxists do not usually allow a 'simple decision' to overturn historically based power relations.
TFTS-RC-038self-and-identity
Objectivity erects two tests: distance and aperspectivity. Socially, men are considered objective, women subjective.
TFTS-RC-101The principal object of human pursuit can in general be sought by her only through him — the polar star of feminine education and formation of character.
TFTS-RC-052Illuminates
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