Butterfly Politics: Changing The World For Women
Under certain conditions, small simple actions can produce large and complex ābutterfly effects.ā Butterfly Politics shows how Catharine A. MacKinnon turned discrimination law into an effective tool against sexual abuseāgrounding and predicting the worldwide #MeToo movementāand proposes concrete steps that could have further butterfly effects on womenās 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she won the U.S. Supreme Court case establishing sexual harassment as illegal, this timely collection of her previously unpublished interventions on consent, rape, and the politics of gender equality captures in action the creative and transformative activism of an icon.