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American feminist and professor of law, a controversial but influential legal theorist whose work primarily took aim at sexual harassment and pornography.
n 1974, while still in law school, MacKinnon became interested in an early case involving sexual harassment and put together an argument to bolster the legal claim of the woman at the centre of the case. That argument—that sexual harassment in the workplace is also sex discrimination and therefore a violation of federal law—grew into MacKinnon's first book, Sexual Harassment of Working Women (1978). In 1986 the Supreme Court, hearing its first sexual harassment case, agreed with MacKinnon's argument by ruling unanimously that sexual harassment is sex discrimination.
Born Oct. 7, 1946, Minneapolis, Minn., U.S.

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activist , woman , feminist , feminism , womens rights , sexual harassment , discrimination