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If a man beats up a woman, he can be charged with a crime.

One person has beaten up another.

But is it relevant that the crime here involves an attack by a member of one gender on a member of another.

Catherine McKinnon is one of the world's leading feminist scholars.

She's written extensively about pornography, sexual harassment and prostitution and has helped reshape international law.

She represented a number of Bosnian women after the 1990s war in the former Yugoslavia and succeeded in getting forced prostitution

and impregnation recognized as acts of genocide.

Professor McKinnon holds academic positions at Harvard and Michigan, but we caught up with her while

she was visiting professor at the University of Cambridge Center for Gender Studies.

Catherine McKinnon, welcome to Philosophy Bides.

Thank you so much. I'm glad to be here with you and your listeners.

The topic we're going to focus on is gender crime.

Could you say a little bit about what that is?

It's a concept, first of all. Could you say a little bit about what that is?

It's a concept, first of all, that certain crimes that happen,

and it's particularly related to sex crimes,

are based on the gender of the people who commit them.

Gender being the social meaning of sex,

that is masculinity and femininity, not biology,

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