Sexual politics
By: Kate Millet.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Urbana
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [364]-377).
"Reprinting Doubleday edition, plus part of Touchstone edition, plus adding an introduction."
Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1970, and Simon & Schuster, 1990.