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Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: The TransAdvocate interviews Catharine A. MacKinnon

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Source Summary

Catharine A. MacKinnon is a lawyer, teacher, writer, theorist, and activist. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (long-term). She holds a B.A. from Smith College, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale. Professor MacKinnon specializes in sex equality issues in political theory and under international and domestic (including comparative and constitutional) law. Her work on sex inequality, focusing on sexual violation, has had a substantial impact on law and culture in the United States and internationally. Professor MacKinnon practices law, consults on legislation, litigation, and activism. She is among the most widely-cited legal scholars in the English language and the most widely-cited woman. The following interview occurred over a series of emails between November 2014 and March 2015 and is part of an

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: The TransAdvocate interviews Catharine A. MacKinnon” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning law and civil rights. Published in 2015 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at that moment.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is public accommodations and facilities and criminal justice and public safety. It links that institutional frame to law and civil rights and transgender identity and history, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

Content analysis

Ranked themes and framings

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Themes

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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
100%
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
61%
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Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
47%
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Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
36%
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Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
35%
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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
33%

Academic framing

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Qualitative and interview research
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Legal analysis
67%
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Interpretive analysis
56%
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Historical analysis
50%

Policy framing

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Public accommodations and facilities
100%
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Criminal justice and public safety
28%
3
Housing and social services
21%

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Granular comparative context

How “Law and civil rights” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 2 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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43 2007

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Documented circulation and reception

8 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 7 distinct domains. The dated evidence currently spans 2015–2017. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

8distinct source records documented

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0books or volumes documented

8references retained by the source publication

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Source-held references8

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Publisher-held referencesChecked · August 31, 2026

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Documented references over time

Dated source evidence currently stored by the Collective

5 2015

1 2016

2 2017

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