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Sexual Politics
Kate Millett
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Description for Sexual Politics
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 612.
A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors-D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet-and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, philosophy, and politics. Her eloquence and popular examples taught a generation to recognize inequities masquerading as nature and proved the value of feminist critique in all facets of life. This new edition features the scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon and the New Yorker correspondent Rebecca Mead on the importance of Millett's work to ... Read more
A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors-D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet-and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, philosophy, and politics. Her eloquence and popular examples taught a generation to recognize inequities masquerading as nature and proved the value of feminist critique in all facets of life. This new edition features the scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon and the New Yorker correspondent Rebecca Mead on the importance of Millett's work to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231174251
SKU
V9780231174251
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About Kate Millett
Kate Millett is an American feminist writer, artist, and activist. Her most recent books are Mother Millett, A.D.: A Memoir, and The Politics of Cruelty: An Essay on the Literature of Political Imprisonment. She is director of the Millett Center for the Arts and lives in New York City and upstate New York. Catharine A. MacKinnon is the Elizabeth ... Read more
Reviews for Sexual Politics
Millett's classic woke me up, changed my perception of women and myself, as it did for tens of thousands of American women when it first appeared.
Leslie Crawford, Kate Millett, the Ambivalent Feminist, Salon Sexual Politics dissected the beliefs, the cultural language, that supported sexual hierarchy. Millett's arguments cut through contemporary culture almost as surely as they ... Read more
Leslie Crawford, Kate Millett, the Ambivalent Feminist, Salon Sexual Politics dissected the beliefs, the cultural language, that supported sexual hierarchy. Millett's arguments cut through contemporary culture almost as surely as they ... Read more