AKA Catharine Alice MacKinnon

Born: 7-Oct-1946
Birthplace: Minneapolis, MN

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Activist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Anti-pornography activist

Father: George E. MacKinnon (Congressman, b. 22-Apr-1906, d. 1-May-1995, myelodysplasia)
Mother: Elizabeth Valentine Davis
Brother: James Davis MacKinnon (b. 1948)
Brother: Leonard Davis MacKinnon (b. 1951)
Boyfriend: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (broken engagement)

    University: BA Government, Smith College (1969)
    Law School: JD, Yale Law School (1977)
    University: PhD Political Science, Yale University (1987)
    Professor: Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan
    Professor: Visiting Professor of Law, University of Chicago

    Meese Commission witness (25-Jul-1985)

Author of books:
Sexual Harassment of Working Women (1978, nonfiction)
Feminism Unmodified (1987, nonfiction)
Pornography and Civil Rights (1988, nonfiction, with Andrea Dworkin)
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989, nonfiction)
Only Words (1993, nonfiction)
In Harm's Way: The Pornography of Civil Rights Hearings (1998, nonfiction)
Sex Equality (2001, nonfiction)

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