International Women´s Human Rights:
Paradigms, Paradoxes, and Possibilities, a Sawyer Seminar organized by the Center for
the Study of Gender and Sexuality, addresses contradictions within the concept
and practice of women´s human rights. The year-long program will include public
lectures, symposia, faculty seminars, an undergraduate workshop and a large
international conference in spring quarter, Engendering Rights in India: The
Colonial Encounter and Beyond. Made
possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Catharine A.
MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law
School, specializes in sex equality issues under international and
constitutional law. She pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment and,
with Andrea Dworkin, created ordinances recognizing pornography as a civil
rights violation and the Swedish model for addressing prostitution. The Supreme
Court of Canada has largely accepted her approaches to equality, pornography,
and hate speech.
In her
visiting lecture to University of Chicago Law School students, Professor
MacKinnon discussed issues raised in her book Are Women Human?: And Other
International Dialogues. Her work exposes the consequences and significance of
the systematic maltreatment of women and its systemic condonation by taking us
inside the workings of nation-states, where the oppression of women defines
community life and distributes power in society and government, and inside the
heart of the international law of conflict to ask why the international
community can rally against terrorists' violence, but not violence against women.
Catherine
MacKinnon, the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law
School specializes in sex equality issues under international and
constitutional law. She pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment and,
with Andrea Dworkin, created ordinances recognizing pornography as a civil
rights violation and the Swedish model for addressing prostitution.
Representing Bosnian women survivors of Serbian genocidal sexual atrocities,
she won Kadic v. Karadzic, whcih first recognized rape as an act of genocide.
Her scholarly books include Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989), Sex
Equality (2001/2007), and Are Women Human? (2006).
"Trafficking,
Prostitution, and Inequality." Harv. C. R -C. L. L. Rev. 46, no. 2 (2011): 271-310. Full
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