Catharine A. MacKinnon is a law and women's rights scholar and activist. Her work ranges from the study of sex discrimination in the workplace, to the challenges of discrimination against women in political and legal institutions. She has been a professor at the University of Michigan Law School since 1987 and is also the author of Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, Sex Equality: The Case for Equal Rights, and Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law.
In other words, for purposes of sex discrimination law, to be a woman means either to be like a man or like a lady. We have to meet either the male standard for males or the male standard for females.Catharine MacKinnon
It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.Catharine MacKinnon
