Trafficking, Prostitution, and Inequality. Catherine MacKinnon

International Women´s Human Rights:Paradigms, Paradoxes, and Possibilities, a Sawyer Seminar organized by the Center forthe Study of Gender and Sexuality, addresses contradictions within the conceptand practice of women´s human rights. The year-long program will include publiclectures, symposia, faculty seminars, an undergraduate workshop and a largeinternational conference in spring quarter, Engendering Rights in India: TheColonial Encounter and Beyond.  Madepossible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Catharine A.MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan LawSchool, specializes in sex equality issues under international andconstitutional law. She pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment and,with Andrea Dworkin, created ordinances recognizing pornography as a civilrights violation and the Swedish model for addressing prostitution. The SupremeCourt of Canada has largely accepted her approaches to equality, pornography,and hate speech.
In hervisiting lecture to University of Chicago Law School students, ProfessorMacKinnon discussed issues raised in her book Are Women Human?: And OtherInternational Dialogues. Her work exposes the consequences and significance ofthe systematic maltreatment of women and its systemic condonation by taking usinside the workings of nation-states, where the oppression of women definescommunity life and distributes power in society and government, and inside theheart of the international law of conflict to ask why the internationalcommunity can rally against terrorists' violence, but not violence against women.CatherineMacKinnon, the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan LawSchool specializes in sex equality issues under international andconstitutional law. She pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment and,with Andrea Dworkin, created ordinances recognizing pornography as a civilrights 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), SexEquality (2001/2007), and Are Women Human? (2006)."Trafficking,Prostitution, and Inequality."Harv. C. R -C. L. L. Rev.46, no. 2 (2011): 271-310. FullText:Hein (UMich users)|Hein|Lexis|Westlaw Iusconstifil