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Belknap Press: An Imprint Of Harvard Universi - Butterfly politics: changing the world for women, with a new preface, paperback/catharine a. mackinnon

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Description A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Under certain conditions, the right small simple actions can produce large and complex butterfly effects, as the #MeToo movement has shown.

Thirty years after Catharine A.

MacKinnon won the U.

Supreme Court case establishing sexual harassment in law, this timely collection captures MacKinnon in action: the creative and transformative activism of an icon.

Butterfly Politics provides the grounding for #MeToo, explains its momentum, and proposes more legal interventions that could have further butterfly effects on women's rights.

Sexual Harassment of Working Women was a revelation.

It showed how this anti-discrimination law--Title VII--could be used as a tool.

It was the beginning of a field that didn't exist until then.

--Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg MacKinnon adapts a concept from chaos theory to show how] small actions can produce major social transformations.

-- New York Times MacKinnon is radical, passionate, incorruptible and a beautiful literary stylist.

Butterfly Politics is a devastating salvo fired in the gender wars.

-- The Australian MacKinnon is encouraging.

precise engagement, principled creativity, imagination, instinct and adaptability: small actions in a collective context producing systemic changes.

-- Lawfare.