Sexual Politics

A new edition of the earthshaking work that exposed the subjugation of women in culture and life.

List of contents

Foreword, by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Introduction to the Illinois Paperback
Introduction to the Touchstone Paperback
Preface
Part I. Sexual Politics
1. Instances of Sexual Politics
2. Theory of Sexual Politics
Part II. Historical Background
3. The Sexual Revolution, First Phase: 1830–1930
4. The Counterrevolution: 1930–60
Part III. The Literary Reflection
5. D. H. Lawrence
6. Henry Miller
7. Norman Mailer
8. Jean Genet
Postscript
Afterword, by Rebecca Mead
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

About the author

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 A. Long Professor of Law at Michigan Law School and the long-term James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Rebecca Mead is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of My Life in Middlemarch and One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding.

Summary

A new edition of the earthshaking work that exposed the subjugation of women in culture and life.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Millett, Millett Kate
• Assisted by: MacKinnon Catharine A. (Foreword), Mead Rebecca (Afterword)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780231174244
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17424-4
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls