Butterfly Politics: Changing The World For Women, With A New Preface

??ometimes ideas change the world. This astonishing, miraculous, shattering, inspiring book captures the origins and the arc of the movement for sex equality. It?? a book whose time has come??lways, but perhaps now more than ever.????ass Sunstein, coauthor of Nudge Under certain conditions, small simple actions can produce large and complex ??utterfly effects.??Butterfly Politics shows how Catharine A. MacKinnon turned discrimination law into an effective tool against sexual abuse??rounding and predicting the worldwide #MeToo movement??nd proposes concrete steps that could have further butterfly effects on women?? rights. Thirty years after she won the U.S. Supreme Court case establishing sexual harassment as illegal, this timely collection of her previously unpublished interventions on consent, rape, and the politics of gender equality captures in action the creative and transformative activism of an icon. ??acKinnon adapts a concept from chaos theory in which the tiny motion of a butterfly?? wings can trigger a tornado half a world away. Under the right conditions, she posits, small actions can produce major social transformations.????ew York Times ??acKinnon [is] radical, passionate, incorruptible and a beautiful literary stylist... Butterfly Politics is a devastating salvo fired in the gender wars... This book has a single overriding aim: to effect global change in the pursuit of equality.????he Australian ??exual Harassment of Working Women was a revelation. It showed how this anti-discrimination law??itle VII??ould be used as a tool... It was the beginning of a field that didn?? exist until then.????.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• | Author: Catharine A. Mackinnon
• | Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint Of Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 528 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0674237668
• | ISBN-13: 9780674237667