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Catharine MacKinnon

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Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.
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"Introduction - The Art of the Impossible", p. 6

 
Catharine MacKinnon

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