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2011 Mary Flexner Lecturer: Judith Butler

September 30, 2011
by Sara Alcid
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The Imperatives of Pornography: Realizable Fourteen Years Later?

Having previously read MacKinnon’s work on pornography in relation to how liberalism undermines women’s rights, I was pleased to see Butler address MacKinnon’s theories in “Burning Acts, Injurious Speech.”  As far as we know, in 1997, Butler disagreed with MacKinnon’s … Continue reading