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Robyn Marasco and Alyson Cole: Your work over several decades has developed a distinctive concept and analysis of politics. The critique of rape law later became the legal claim for sexual harassment and my international work against rape as a gender crime, a crime of inequality. CAM: It is gratifying to see sexual harassment starting to fulfill its potential as a core recognition of the sexualized inequality of power. [Extracted from the article]

MacKinnon perceives that sex is a product of power and that feminism requires its own political theory and practice. 2 Catharine A. MacKinnon, I Butterfly Politics: Changing the World for Women i (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017); Catharine A. MacKinnon, I Are Women Human? 12 Robyn Marasco and Alyson Cole, "Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Catharine A. MacKinnon about Power, Politics, and Political Science", I Polity i 55 (2023): 231-39. [Extracted from the article]

As for the value of Marxist feminist theory, here's one way I think about its contribution to the present conjuncture: Marxism may continue to be optional for feminist theorists, but Marxist theorists can no longer remain ignorant of feminist theory. AC & RM: B Beyond having long admired and relied on your scholarship, one of the reasons we were eager to interview you for this feature of I Polity i is because of your writing about work. b KW: I will say that I'm not surprised - I doubt many feminists were - about how the pandemic has created so much more work for women, who are being forced to add to their other two or three shifts even more work, including, for one important example, the highly skilled work of teaching their children. [Extracted from the article]