Catherine MacKinnon, perhaps the dominant voice of North American feminist legal theory over the last two decades, developed her feminist theory of law through an extended metaphor with Marxism. Marxist thought thus became thoroughly intertwined with MacKinnon’s particular brand of radical feminism in the minds of many feminist legal scholars and activists. As MacKinnon’s work has fallen out of...

abstract issue: in economic literature, there are two hypotheses regarding the link between economic development and gender inequality. the first gender inequality decreases with economic development. second, economic development increases gender inequality. this research is conducted to investigate the effects of economic development on gender inequality according to kuznets gender curve in ir...

Cybersex can be defined as a social interaction between at least two persons who are exchanging real time digital messages in order to become sexually aroused and satisfied. This article first describes videoand text-based cybersex as a new kind of sexual encounter with its own particularities. Then the feminist literature on cybersex is reviewed revealing two basic perspectives: The victimizat...

Aims of the Unit The overall purpose of this unit is to get you to read some writings by feminists and see the profoundly new and perhaps unsettling epistemological ideas they have put forward. We hope that by the end of the unit no one will characterise feminist philosophers of science as a unified school. Objectives By the end of this unit you should be able to:) See some limitations of groun...