Sexual Politics

Revived Review to commemorate the passing of Kate Millett, Feminist critic, 1934-2017. (Thanks to David Schaafsma for the gentle reminder.) **************************** Yes, it's Week Four of STRICTLY COME NOVELISTS (note - this is the British version of DANCING WITH THE NOVELISTS) Tess Daley (blondly)......more

It ruined D H Lawrence for me, but we all get somewhere we realize our favorite author is sexist, especially those who had good women in their lives and I don't know why. If you like feminist literary criticism and if you don't mind your favorite authors being criticized,you will definitely like this......more

R.I.P. Kate Millett, who died yesterday in Paris. This book, which I read parts of in the seventies, and read more of in the eighties, and have occasionally used in my teaching. is responsible for founding feminist literary studies, focusing on what now seem to be (thanks to her) obvious examples--H......more

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 Polit......more

This was the book that made me fall back in love with feminism. Feminism as in "the centuries-long project to improve women's lot", not "what the pink-haired kids are doing these days." Kate Millett is a rational person who looks at sexual norms and asks "Why?" Do we *really* think Freud's theories we......more