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Andrea Loux, "Idols and Icons: Catharine MacKinnon
and Freedom of Expression in North America", Feminist Legal Studies
VI/1 (1998), 85-104: This article re-situates Catharine MacKinnon and her
work on pornography in the particular and peculiar social, cultural and
legal context from which it emerged--the United States. The article asks
why MacKinnon's controversial work is so popular amongst a segment of US
women law students, seeking an explanation in the culture, politics and
educational practices of the self-proclaimed "elite" law schools
of the U.S. academy. The article goes on to examine the Canadian experience
of incorporating MacKinnon's pornography theory into constitutional law
and the recent case brought by the gay and lesbian bookstore, Little Sisters.
The article concludes with a discussion of the lessons that can be learned
by British feminists from the North American experience as we prepare to
create a uniquely British culture of rights with the incorporation of the
ECHR.
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