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...leading anticensorship advocate, provoked strong teactions from the crowded audience. Moderator Susan Suleiman's attempt to restore order during the question and answer period was overridden by a Cantabrigian majority intent on using the session as a forum for debating next month's referendum on the MacKinnon-Dworkin anti-porn bill...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: Porn a Cause for Expression, Not War | 10/8/1985 | See Source »

Those who disagree with this approach--notably MacKinnon, a lawyer and professor of political science, and co-author of the MacKinnon-Dworkin bill--use the same evidence to argue that a critical causal tie exists between the image and the reality. Pornography's presence perpetuates pornographic minds and violent behavior, MacKinnon argues, relying on psycho-sociological studies...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: Porn a Cause for Expression, Not War | 10/8/1985 | See Source »

Most of the horror stories resulted from over-subscribed courses. One of the most infamous was Moral Reasoning 21 taught in spring 1982, which Visiting Philosophy Professor Ronald Dworkin taught as a discussion course before 800 people in Sanders Theater. Another was Literature and Arts B-16, which in the spring of 1983 drew 600 students to a 400 maximum course. Flip-flops in the admissions policy, with lotteries cancelled as fast as they were created, caused mass confusion up until the study card deadline...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Days of upheaval | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...years to quash the turn-of-the-century stereotype of the suffragette as a humorless shrew. Foolish efforts to raise the status of women by fig-leaFing the media will ressurect this long-dead stereotype. Feminism fought a long battle to be taken seriously; feminists like MacKinnon and Dworkin are only inviting the kind of derision they want to avoid...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Missing the Point | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

More important, when feminism appropriates the moral arrogance of the New Right, it starts to become indistinguishable from its opposite. There is no small irony in the fact that the MacKinnon-Dworkin bill would not have made it to the Mayor's desk without the support of two-right-wing city councilmen who saw the ordinance merely as a means for cleaning up the neighborhoods. Feminism began as a crusade for the dignity of half our nation, but if feminists like Mackinnon and Dworkin continue to focus on the wrong issues, it may degenerate into an hysterical ideology of sexual...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Missing the Point | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

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