PHIL 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: British Thermal Unit, Oxymoron, Public Sphere
Document Summary
Mckinnon - influential, she did her degree at yale, works at michigan uni in law, was quite influential in getting legal recognition of sexual harassment in workplace. If we had sexual equality, gender itself would essentially disappear. The mainstream approach of sex equality and inequality. And what she thinks is problematic is this fundamental concept: sex equality. In the concept itself, is a fundamental tension . What is equality? unlike. a kind of equivalence, where you treat like things alike, and unlike things. But sex is difference it is seen, and constructed as different. So, the sexes are defined where the mutual difference, one might say. So right here, laying this out, there is this sort of concept of sex equality and inequality, and within it, there is this oxymoron. We are looking for equivalence, on one hand . But then on the other hand, there is this construction of separated-ness.
