Sexual PoliticsUniversity of Illinois Press, 2000 - 397 pages Praised and denounced when it was first published in 1970, Sexual Politics not only explored history but also became part of it. Kate Millett's groundbreaking book fueled feminism's second wave, giving voice to the anger of a generation while documenting the inequities -- neatly packaged in revered works of literature and art -- of a complacent and unrepentant society. 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. |
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Contents
Instances of Sexual Politics | 3 |
Theory of Sexual Politics | 23 |
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND | 59 |
The Sexual Revolution First Phase 18301930 | 61 |
POLEMICAL | 88 |
LITERARY | 127 |
The Counterrevolution 193060 | 157 |
Freud and the Influence of Psychoanalytic Thought | 176 |
THE LITERARY REFLECTION | 235 |
D H Lawrence | 237 |
Henry | 294 |
Norman Mailer | 314 |
Jean Genet | 336 |
Postscript | 362 |
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Acknowledgments | 378 |
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