{"product_id":"butterfly-politics-changing-the-world-for-women-with-a-new-preface-9780674237667","title":"Butterfly Politics: Changing the World for Women, with a New Preface","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Sometimes ideas change the world. This astonishing, miraculous, shattering, inspiring book captures the origins and the arc of the movement for sex equality. It's a book whose time has come--always, but perhaps now more than ever.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Cass Sunstein, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eNudge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnder certain conditions, small simple actions can produce large and complex \"butterfly effects.\" \u003ci\u003eButterfly Politics\u003c\/i\u003e shows how Catharine A. MacKinnon turned discrimination law into an effective tool against sexual abuse--grounding and predicting the worldwide #MeToo movement--and proposes concrete steps that could have further butterfly effects on women's rights. Thirty years after she won the U.S. Supreme Court case establishing sexual harassment as illegal, this timely collection of her previously unpublished interventions on consent, rape, and the politics of gender equality captures in action the creative and transformative activism of an icon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"MacKinnon adapts a concept from chaos theory in which the tiny motion of a butterfly's wings can trigger a tornado half a world away. Under the right conditions, she posits, small actions can produce major social transformations.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"MacKinnon [is] radical, passionate, incorruptible and a beautiful literary stylist... \u003ci\u003eButterfly Politics\u003c\/i\u003e is a devastating salvo fired in the gender wars... This book has a single overriding aim: to effect global change in the pursuit of equality.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSexual Harassment of Working Women\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMacKinnon, Catharine A.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Catharine A. MacKinnon is Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law (Long-Term) at Harvard Law School.","brand":"Belknap Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50692793925906,"sku":"9780674237667","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_327aece3-87ad-4b3e-9d30-71d91809bef7.jpg?v=1734134109","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/butterfly-politics-changing-the-world-for-women-with-a-new-preface-9780674237667","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}