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What women are for: pornography and social ontology (2017)
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Jenkins, K. (2017). What women are for: pornography and social ontology. Beyond speech: pornography and analytic feminist philosophyOxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190257910.003.0005

This chapter uses John Searle’s account of institutional reality to offer an interpretation of two of Catharine MacKinnon’s claims about pornography. The first is that it subordinates women; the second is that it wrongly constructs women’s natures. T... Read More about What women are for: pornography and social ontology.