PHIL 259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Catharine Mackinnon, Nba Coach Of The Year Award

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Lecture 9: feb 8: reading: rape redefined catharine mackinnon. Rape is a crime of gender inequality in terms by eliminating consent, and intrinsically unequal concept, and reconceiving force to include inequalities. International developments recognizing sexual assault as gender crime reveal domestic law"s failures and illuminate a path forward. The state acts as the plaintiff in rape charges, thus the one pressing charges against possible suspect. She points out that success rate of convicting rape and talks about the power struggle happening in the legal system: problem mckinnon wants to deal with: explanation for why rape is poorly prosecuted. Looks at how rape is defined in law, and conceptualized in society. Particular problem is on consent: currently law conceives rape as sex without consent. That"s a mistake as consent condition in rape, meaning for rape to occur there must be lack of consent , is the source of the poor prosecution rate for it, and to further things.

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