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Sexual Politics is the debut book by American writer and activist Kate Millett, based on her PhD dissertation at Columbia University. It was published in 1970 by Doubleday. It is regarded as a classic of feminism and one of radical feminism's key texts, a formative piece in shaping the intentions of the second-wave feminist movement.
21 apr 2016 · La Millett decise di ampliare il suo saggio «pungente e arguto», anch’esso intitolato Sexual Politics, che aveva consegnato alla Cornell University l’anno precedente. Nella versione ampliata, avrebbe ripercorso il modo in cui la letteratura rifletteva la rivoluzione e la controrivoluzione sessuale.
3 mar 2010 · "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.
La sua opera più celebre è sicuramente La politica del sesso, datata 1970: una delle prime alte espressioni teoriche del femminismo radicale (1968-1980). Millett sostiene che «l'oppressione sessuale è dominio politico».
2 mag 2024 · In 1970, Sexual Politics explained why sexual relationships – and indeed sex itself – are political. ‘The world was sleeping,’ wrote Andrea Dworkin of this book.
A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors—D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet—and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology ...
Although in 1970, Kate Millett's Sexual Politics would be hailed in the popular press for providing a theoretical foundation to the newly organized women's liberation movement, what now seems so remarkable about Sexual Politics is that it also is a book of literary criticism-the first book of academic feminist literary criticism.'
