Sexual politics
By: Kate Millett.
Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Women -- History -- Modern period, 1600-; Sex role.; Women in literature.; Sex in literature.
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [364]-377).
"A Touchstone book."
Includes index.