Papers of Catharine A. MacKinnon 1946-2008 (inclusive) 1975-2005 (bulk)
Published: 1946
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Actions and defenses; Cases; Students; Faculty; Abused women; American Authors; College students' writings, American; College teachers; Crimes against humanity; Fathers and daughters; Feminism; Feminists; Genocide; Human rights; International law; Theory of Knowledge; Law; Studying and teaching; Lawyers; Legal status, laws; Libel and slander; Obscenity (Law); Pornography; Law and legislation; Social aspects; Rape; Sex crimes (International law); Sex discrimination against women; Sex discrimination in employment; Sex role; Sex role in the work environment; Sexual harassment; Sexual harassment of women; Trials (Obscenity); Universities and colleges; War crime trials; War crimes; Women (International law); Women; Crimes against; Education (Higher); Employment; Social conditions; Violence against; Women law students; Women lawyers; Women teachers; Women's rights; Women's studies; Yugoslav War Crime Trials, Hague, Netherlands, 1994-; Yale Law School; Stanford University. School of Law; United States; Smith College; International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; International War Crimes Tribunal; United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women; University of Michigan. Law School; Women Against Pornography; Women's Legal Education and Action Fund; Meech Lake Accord (1987)
Description: Collection includes personal and biographical material; school papers; correspondence; writing files for articles, papers, contributions, and books; teaching material for various classes; legal client files; and audiovisual material from her classes and appearances.
Notes: Catharine A. MacKinnon Papers, 1946-2008. MC 703. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

Feminist lawyer and professor, Catharine Alice MacKinnon was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1946. She attended Smith College (B.A. 1969), Yale Law School (J.D. 1977), and Yale University (Ph.D. 1987). While in graduate school she organized a course to be taught in the women's studies program, and began to make the argument that sexual harassment in the workplace is also sex discrimination and therefore a violation of federal law. This grew into her first book, Sexual Harassment of Working Women (1978), and in 1986, upon hearing its first sexual harassment case, the Supreme Court agreed.

During the 1980s MacKinnon was a professor at a number of law schools before becoming tenured at the University of Michigan. Turning her attention to pornography, which she saw as a form of sex discrimination that fosters the exploitation and abuse of women, she wrote (with Andrea Dworkin) Pornography and Civil Rights (1988), Only Words (1993), and In Harm's Way: The Pornography of Civil Rights Hearings (1998), among others. MacKinnon has represented Bosnian and Croatian women against Serbs accused of genocide since 1992. In a 2000 lawsuit, Kadic v. Karadzic, the court recognized rape as an act of genocide. MacKinnon works with Equality Now, a non-governmental organization promoting international sex equality rights for women.

Materials in English.

Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch01413