Butterfly Politics

by Catharine A. MacKinnon

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The minuscule motion of a butterfly's wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Under the right conditions, small simple actions can produce large complex effects. In this timely and provocative book, Catharine A. MacKinnon argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural transformations.

Butterfly Politics brings this incisive understanding of social causality to a wide-ranging exploration of gender relations. The pieces collected here--many published for the first time--provide a new perspective on MacKinnon's career as a pioneer of legal theory...

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  • ISBN10 0674416600
  • ISBN13 9780674416604
  • Publish Date 17 April 2017
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 7 July 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Harvard University Press
  • Imprint The Belknap Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 504
  • Language English