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When is rape not a crime? When it's pornography--or so First Amendment law seems to say: in film, a rape becomes "free speech." Pornography, Catharine MacKinnon contends, is neither speech nor free. Pornography, racial and sexual harassment, and hate speech are acts of intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination, and should be legally treated as such. Only Words is a powerful indictment of a legal system at odds with itself, its First Amendment promoting the very inequalities its Fourteenth Amendment is supposed to end. In the bold and compelling style that has made her one of…
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4 editions- Paperback · English · 1996Harvard University Press · 160 pages · 9780674639348
- Other · English · 1995HarperCollins · 110 pages · 9780006382454
- Other · English · 1994HarperCollins · 110 pages · 9780002554978
- Other · English · 1993Harvard University Press · 152 pages · 9780674639331
Equality before the lawFreedom of speechHate speechPornographyRacism in languageSexism in languagePornographieRecht