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Men And Women Disparate Impact
917 wordsConstitutionally protected speech that is Clearly sexual abuse is discriminating and unconstitutional, therefore, must be restricted speech. Catherine A. MacKinnon, in her book Only Words gives persuading evidence that pornography subordinates women as a group through sexual abuse. She says Protecting pornography means protecting sexual abuse as speech, at the same time that both pornography and its protection have deprived women of speech, especially speech against pornography (MacKinnon, 9). M...
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Freedom Of Thought Freedom Of Speech
675 words6 pages in length. To be told what is permissible reading material and what is not is a direct violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution. Yet all across the country, school library shelves are being stripped of books that certain individuals and groups deem as unacceptable. Censorship is alive and well in the United States; its ripple effect on America's students is often as damaging as reading one of many so-called controversial books. The writer reveals why censorship in today's sch...
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Cause Of Action Supreme Court Of Canada
2,367 wordsSuppose one accepts MacKinnon and Dworkin's suggested statutory definition of pornography. How does one who generally accepts MacKinnon and Dworkin's views on the pervasively harmful effect of pornography, and who accepts a need for legal redress of the harms perpetrated by pornography, deal with pornographic material? The ordinance proposed by MacKinnon and Dworkin would deal with such material by enacting legislation which gives people adversely affected by the works, which clearly fit their d...
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Terminally Ill Patients Attempted Suicide
1,286 wordsEuthanasia is one of society's more widely, and hotly debated moral issues of our time. More directly, active euthanasia, which by definition, is; "Doing something, such as administering a lethal drug, or using other means that cause a person's death. " 1 Passive euthanasia, defined as; "Stopping (or not starting) some treatment, which allows a person to die, the person's condition causes his or her death, " 2 seems not to be as debated, perhaps not as recognized, as it's counterpart. I have cho...
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Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment
1,206 wordsIt is time to sex it down In the current political forum and corporate world, sexual harassment has become a heated issue. The federal courts of the United States have addressed the pressing issue of this violation and are forcing corporations to assume responsibility for the actions of their employees by the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. In Code 29 of the Code of Federal Regulation, it states that in cases involving employees, An employer may be responsible for the acts of employee...
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Men And Women Draw The Line
1,881 wordsJ. M Coetzee's The Harms of Pornography As the debate over pornography and its place in society grows hotter every day, several authors in particular shed a new light on the subject. Both their intuition and insight involving their beliefs can help the reader a great deal in seeing aspects of this debate that might have otherwise gone without the consideration that they so deserve. I believe that pornography is not only okay, but is allowing our country to take a step back and ask ourselves how ...
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Point Of View Radical Feminist
479 wordsPicture the scenario, a male supervisor invited a new female employee to lunch to discuss her work. On other occassion, over drinks, he attempted to fondle her. Situations like this occured everyday in the working place, and the term for this is sexual harrassment. Gender issues such as sexual topics. These topics are discussed in essay written by Ellen Goodman and Catherine MacKinnon. Although both essays refer to the same subject matter, yet Goodmans political approach and clarity in analyzing...
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Cause Of Action Hate Literature
5,279 wordsSuppose one accepts MacKinnon and Dworkins suggested statutory definition of pornography. How does one who generally accepts MacKinnon and Dworkins views on the pervasively harmful effect of pornography, and who accepts a need for legal redress of the harms perpetrated by pornography, deal with pornographic material? The ordinance proposed by MacKinnon and Dworkin would deal with such material by enacting legislation which gives people adversely affected by the works, which clearly fit their def...
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Carol Gilligan Wadsworth Publishing
1,531 wordsGender and Morality A study on the possible relation between sex, gender, and moral behavior Our history is an account of changes, struggles and progress. It mostly contains writings and deeds of great men. However, in this century, many nations talent pools have been doubled by the introduction of Womens Suffrage. With that event women in many societies have been able to elevate themselves to a point where they can work towards gaining recognition in domains in which they used to be viewed as i...
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Violence Against Women Andrea Dworkin
1,414 wordsThis paper will show that many of her most popular beliefs are not only detrimental to society, but also not in the best interests of women. In letters from a war zone, Andrea Dworkin presents a collection of speeches and short articles she has composed during her career as a writer and activist. Many of her articles deal with censorship and pornography. One claim is central to all of these, pornography is an act and not an idea, thus censorship is not relevant to it. In response to a New York T...
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Rousseau And Marx Sought The Equality Mackinnon
849 wordsRousseau and Marx spearhead the movement of the worker. They attempt to alter current, unjust, stifling situations and bring a natural equivalence to all. Yet, throughout their works, they hardly mention the role of women. Marx does, at one point, acknowledge that women should no longer be known as private, but as collective: open and free to all men. MacKinnon, a raging feminist? would probably not disagree with Marx on that point, like wed all think, but agree with him. For it would take away ...
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Cause Of Action Hate Literature
2,156 wordsSuppose one Porn 2 Pornography Suppose one accepts MacKinnon and Dworkins suggested statutory definition of pornography. How does one who generally accepts MacKinnon and Dworkins views on the pervasively harmful effect of pornography, and who accepts a need for legal redress of the harms perpetrated by pornography, deal with pornographic material? The second major problem with the ordinance for our traditional liberal legal framework is the identification of the source of the harm. The liberal c...
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Freedom Of Speech Pornography On The Internet
2,946 wordsPorn, its everywhere! Go to any major search engine and you are well on your way to viewing some of the finest cyber porn around. No age verification, no credit card required, all it takes is just a couple of clicks on the mouse. But wait a second, why is it so easy, was it always like this? Not really, as we have seen, the Internet and the pornography industry have come together to make quite an explosion that has brought many issues to the surface. Its a scary fact to realize that 83. 5 % imag...
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