Rendering women punishable: the making of a penal crisis

Abstract

Catharine MacKinnon wrote these words in an article about pornography, which she defined as ‘the graphic sexually explicit sub­ ordination of women through pictures or words’ (1987:176). Her argument was that pornography, which reinforces the objectification and dehumanising of women and the dominance of men, is often portrayed by men (and women) as being no more than erotica – something which is based on sexual equality and which is equally pleasurable for men and women. In this symmetrical world, men suffer from the same things as women and, conversely, women find pleasure in the same deviant behaviour as men.

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