Sexual Politics

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 challenging the complacency that sidelines feminism.

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. Foreword by Catharine A. MacKinnon. Afterword by Rebecca Mead.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Kate Millet, Kate Millett, Millett Kate
• Assisted by: MacKinnon Catharine A. (Foreword), Mead Rebecca (Afterword)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780231174251
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17425-1
• 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