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Sexual Politics
by
Kate Millett
Millett's groundbreaking book that gave voice to the anger of a generation and laid the foundation for subsequent feminist scholarship.
Paperback, 424 pages
Published
March 8th 2000
by University of Illinois Press
(first published 1969)
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Yes, it's Week Four of STRICTLY COME NOVELISTS
(note - this is the British version of DANCING WITH THE NOVELISTS)
Tess Daley (blondly) : And here, dancing the American smooth with his partner Ola Jordan,
is Count Leo Tolstoy.
(Music : From Russia with Love. The couple cavort.)
Sir Bruce (as the couple shimmies from the dance floor) : Well done, well done Leo. I'm only glad you were able to finish your dance in less than 700 page...more
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Yes, it's Week Four of STRICTLY COME NOVELISTS
(note - this is the British version of DANCING WITH THE NOVELISTS)
Tess Daley (blondly) : And here, dancing the American smooth with his partner Ola Jordan,
is Count Leo Tolstoy.
(Music : From Russia with Love. The couple cavort.)
Sir Bruce (as the couple shimmies from the dance floor) : Well done, well done Leo. I'm only glad you were able to finish your dance in less than 700 page...more
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Everyone always says that this book founded feminist literary studies even though OBVIOUSLY Simone De Beauvoir was the real founder with her essays on several of the same authors in Second Sex. I know it's not as fun to think so though since she founded EVERYTHING else already. However, Sexual Politics is mind-blowingly brilliant. One of the few literary theory books which leaves you analyzing the patterns of your own life and recognizing underlying structures you instictively knew, but could no...more
The founding text, or opening salvo, of feminist literary criticism. It's kind of odd to think that forty years ago, this critique of modern authors' blithe (and often quite funny) gender assumptions was new; today it's the universal property of well-read college humanities majors, even if they've never heard of Kate Millett. But it's still a great read.
Only read about 100 pages of it: don't tell my professor. Seemed like one of those books one should probably read but is just a beast to get through (especially if you're forced to read it over 3 days). My rating isn't really fair, disregard it.
First time I've ever not finished a book for class. I feel like that is an accomplishment of some sort.
First time I've ever not finished a book for class. I feel like that is an accomplishment of some sort.
An eyeopener. Moving, so scanning in some books. My favorite ones. After reading this, I swore off Mailer and H. Miller forever. Met Kate later, when she was making art in a studio in the East Village. My idea of an artistic rebel.
This text is a must read for anyone interested in feminism.
Elisabeth reminded me that I read this for the sex too. Sigh.
The misogyny she examines was too much for me to finish the last few chapters. A feminist must-read.
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Wonderful 1970 classic breakdown of male domination through an examination of literature: Mailer, Miller, Freud, Hardy, and more. Essential as an early feminist literary criticism piece correlating the stories that get told and the effects in the real world.
we all need to educate ourselves. things change and stay the same all at once. as a bio woman and self pronounced bi gendered queer, feminist rival and anti-hero i loved the truth and the guts of it.
It was for a class, which I also had to give a presentation on. I actually liked it, except for the parts that pissed me off.
This book is a key feminist work, and encourages one to just think of the world through a different lens.
Apr 23, 2008
Louise Colette
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If steam isn't coming out of your ears after reading this one, there's no hope for you.
Only read some parts of this book, the parts when she rips my homeboy Henry Miller a new one.
Mar 23, 2007
Autumn
marked it as to-read
just acquired from a friend but can't start until i finish norman mailer's prisoner of sex...
Too boring to finish.
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