Only Words

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by Catharine A. MacKinnon

Harvard University Press

Due/Published March 1996, 160 pages, paper

ISBN 0674639340

An indictment of a legal system at odds with itself, its First Amendment promoting the very inequalities its Fourteenth Amendment is supposed to end, Only Words contends that pornography, racial and sexual harassment, and racial hate speech are acts of intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination, and should be legally treated as such.