Sexual Politics

Sexual Politics

by Kate Millett and Rebecca Mead
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 16/02/2016

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A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art.
Beginning in 1830 and targeting four revered authors-D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet-Kate Millett 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 Catharine A. Mackinnon (University of Michigan Law School) and New Yorker correspondent Rebecca Mead on the importance of Millett’s work to challenging the complacency currently sidelining feminism.
ISBN:
9780231541725
9780231541725
Category:
Feminism & feminist theory
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
16-02-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Kate Millett

Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist.

She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a postgraduate degree with first-class honors after studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford.

Her writings serve as statements on the feminist, human rights, peace, civil rights, and anti-psychiatry movements.

In 1978, she founded the Women's Art Colony in LaGrange, New York as an institution for women's art and activism. Her books include Sexual Politics (1970), The Prostitution Papers (1973), Flying (1974), Sita (1977), The Basement (1979), Going to Iran (1982), a book about being arrested in Iran; The Loony-Bin Trip (1990), about being involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility; The Politics of Cruelty (1994); and Mother Millett (2001).

Rebecca Mead

Rebecca Mead has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1997. She has profiled many subjects and has contributed more than two hundred pieces to the Talk of the Town. She is the author of One Perfect Day and My Life in Middlemarch, a New York Times best seller. She has served as a McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University and is the recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in London.

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