Pornography - A Legal Definition

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MacKinnon petitioned the High Court claiming that pornography was a violation of Civil Rights, and she won the case. This paper looks at the arguments she presented and how her re-definition of pornography has social ramifications. It looks at other work she has done in the field of legislation against sexual harassment.

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"Beginning in the mid 1970s, MacKinnon pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment as a form of sex discrimination. Beginning in 1983, with Andrea Dworkin, she conceived and wrote ordinances recognizing pornography as a violation of civil rights. The U.S. Supreme Court accepted her theory of sexual harassment in 1986. The Supreme Court of Canada adopted, in part, approaches that she created with the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) to equality (1989), pornography (1992), and hate speech (1991). (Website)"

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