Sexuality - Mackinnon

In this article, the author makes a clear distinction on what classifies theories as feminist. As we have discussed in the opening of this course, feminist theory attempts to describe, explain and analyze the conditions of women and their lives. Mackinnon further explains that just because someone is biologically female does not classify their thoughts as feminist. Theory becomes feminist when it is argued that women are looked as less than man, as defined by man, and to a degree, when woman is able to be viewed as less than human as results of patriarchal dominance and idea. Because women are different from men (the norm) we are then classified as inferior, powerless, and different. Feminist theory combats these ideas and criticisms by analyzing the social construct of male power, and then confronting it.