Examines the power struggle which exists between men and women and the way in which it is reflected in the literary works of D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet
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Book Description:
A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, philosophy, and politics. This new edition features Catharine A. MacKinnon and Rebecca Mead on the importance of Millett's work to challenging the complacency currently sidelining feminism.
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.
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- PublisherTouchstone
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 067170740X
- ISBN 13 9780671707408
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages416
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