OPEN STACKS | #2 Working Women, Working Women: Catharine Mackinnon & Kimberly Hoang
Radical feminist lawyer and scholar Catharine MacKinnon's book Butterfly Politics argues that seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can affect major social and cross-cultural transformations. MacKinnon discusses the butterfly effect through the lens of her pioneering work in helping shape and articulate sex discrimination law and the legal concept of sexual harassment as we know it. Kimberly Kay Hoang questions conventional narratives of power and victimhood in Vietnam's sex trade in Dealing in Desire.
This episode was produced by Kit Brennen.
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The minuscule motion of a butterfly's wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Under the right conditions, small simple actions can produce large complex effects. In this timely and provocative book, Catharine A. MacKinnon argues that the right seemingly minor...
