Word: mackinnons
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Unfortunately for Baker, the Michigan campus is well versed in the latest academic debate over where sexual fantasy turns into sexual abuse. Catharine MacKinnon, author of Only Words and a professor at the law school, is the nation's foremost proponent of the theory that writing and reading pornography are in themselves acts of violence; that consumers of it end up, depending on their "chosen sphere of operation," raping, abusing or discriminating against women. MacKinnon immediately seized on Baker's case. "What he wrote constitutes libel, sexual harassment and is a violation of privacy," she says. "We need...
...feminism" -- the drag queens and prostitutes who are the stars of her cosmology. The title also summarizes Paglia's method. Toss her a pop-cultural subject (Amy Fisher, Lorena Bobbitt), and she'll vamp on it, often brilliantly. Invoke her prim sisters in "the feminist establishment" (Anita Hill, Catharine MacKinnon), and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting for Amazon rights. Is she fair? Nah -- fair is for wimps. But she is always entertaining, offering vigorous ideas for the open mind...
...sooner had Vietnam and Laos not been isolated by wars and trade embargoes. For many years, local hunters and even Laotian forest officials have used antlers taken from the animals as hat racks or as parts of ceremonial altars, unaware that these trophies represented species new to science. Indeed, MacKinnon found among the unsorted bones in the collection of Hanoi's Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources some skulls of the slow-running deer that had been gathering dust since the late 1960s, when they were picked up during a Vietnamese collecting expedition. During a recent trip to the institute...
...explain why ancient species still survive. But now hunters' snares indiscriminately kill anything they trap, including endangered animals such as the tiger and sun bear. Human pressures have reduced the elephant population to as few as five animals, and the same fate could befall the species just uncovered. MacKinnon, disturbed by the connotations of the name slow-running deer, is worried that this animal may become extinct even before it is scientifically described...
Both countries have recently moved to protect these ecosystems. On the basis of recommendations by MacKinnon and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Vietnamese government has expanded the Vu Quang reserve from 40,000 to 150,000 acres and shut down logging in the park. Vu Quang connects to the 900,000-acre Nakai Nam Theum National Biodiversity Conservation Area in Laos, and if current proposals are adopted, the two areas will be joined to an additional 750,000 acres of reserves and the surrounding mountainous forests in Vietnam. There are also proposals to enlarge and link protected areas...