Sexual politics / Kate Millett.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Avon Book, 1970.Description: xxx, 403 pages ; 23 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:- 305.42 MIL 22
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | The Mico University College General Stacks | Non-fiction | 305.42 MIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 74797 |
Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1970, and Simon & Schuster, 1990.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-382) and index.
Sexual politics. Instances of sexual politics ; Theory of sexual politics. -- Historical background. The sexual revolution, first phase: 1830-1930 ; The counterrevolution: 1930-60. -- The literary reflection. D.H. Lawrence ; Henry Miller ; Norman Mailer ; Jean Genet. -- Postscript.
"Sexual Politics laid the foundation for subsequent feminist scholarship by showing how cultural discourse reflects a systematized subjugation and exploitation of women. Millett demonstrates in detail how patriarchy's attitudes and systems penetrate literature, philosophy, psychology, and politics. Her incendiary work rocked the foundations of the literary canon by castigating time-honored classics - from D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover to Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead - for their use of sex to degrade and undermine women." "A new introduction to this edition draws attention to some of the forms patriarchy has taken recently in consolidating its oppressive and dangerous control."--Jacket.
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