Alyssa Bresnahan
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st Touchstone ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 397 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...