Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. C
  4. Catharine MacKinnon
  5. To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group ...

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.

Catharine MacKinnon
Mean, Abuse, Groups
Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.170, Harvard University Press
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.