Society & Culture
Feminist lawyer, writer, teacher, and activist Catharine A. MacKinnon discusses "Sexual Harassment in the Age of #MeToo" with Durba Mitra, assistant professor of studies of women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University. They discuss MacKinnon's role in the genesis of sexual harassment law and why it required reshaping the legal meaning of "equality" itself. They also discuss the relationship between the law and social movements, how the law can address discrimination and violence against women of color and trans people, the differences between the Obama and Trump administrations' approaches to Title IX, and the future of #MeToo. This conversation is part of the Feminist Public Intellectual Project, a series of open-access features presented by Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (http://signsjournal.org/fpip).