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Sexual Politics

Kate Millett

Is the relationship between women and men a matter of power as well as feeling, and where do history and literature show it?

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Author
Kate Millett

Why read it

  • You will learn to see relations between men and women as arrangements of power, not only private feeling
  • You will read novels with a sharper eye for who holds power in the scenes of love and sex
  • You will see that gains for women can be rolled back, as happened after the first sexual revolution

Who it is for

  • A reader who wants the original argument behind later feminist debate
  • A literature student studying how novels portray men and women
  • Someone who hears the word feminist and wants the ideas behind it

Contents

  1. Foreword by Catharine A. MacKinnon
  2. Introduction to the Illinois Paperback
  3. Introduction to the Touchstone Paperback
  4. Preface
  5. I: Sexual Politics
  6. 1. Instances of Sexual Politics
  7. 2. Theory of Sexual Politics
  8. II: Historical Background
  9. 3. The Sexual Revolution, First Phase: 1830–1930
  10. 4. The Counterrevolution: 1930–60
  11. III: The Literary Reflection
  12. 5. D. H. Lawrence
  13. 6. Henry Miller
  14. 7. Norman Mailer
  15. 8. Jean Genet
  16. Postscript
  17. Afterword by Rebecca Mead

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