The Politics of Cruelty: An Essay On the Literature of Political Imprisonment (Penguin social sciences)

Politics & Social Sciences

MILLETT, Kate.

Social Sciences

Penguin

Sexual Politics

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, philosophy, and politics. Her eloquence and popular examples taught a generation to recognize inequities masquerading as nature and proved the value of feminist critique in all facets of life. This new edition features the scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon and the New Yorker correspondent Rebecca Mead on the importance of Millett's work to challenging the complacency that sidelines feminism.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Columbia University Press

Flying

The well-known feminist frankly discusses her political awakening, personal relationships, and the conflicts and fears that dominated her life after the publication of "Sexual Politics"

Women's Studies

Hart-Davis McGibbon

Sexual politics

Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd

'In a kaleidoscopic, almost cinematic style, Kate Millett unreels her inner and outer life during one decisive year: the year after "Sexual Politics" transformed her almost overnight from unknown sculptor to media star. In the heady atmosphere of instant fame, while she is constantly moving between New York and London, Cape Cod and her farm in Poughkeepsie, Millett's days and nights are filled with flashes of anger, moments of intimacy, appointments, funerals, divorces, parties, and meetings. Her response is to write it all down, resulting in the book she called 'the most fun I ever had as a writer'. A rushing, swirling outpouring of intimate self-revelation, "Flying" sweeps the reader along in a whirlwind of anxiety, exhilaration, and white-hot passion'.'Millett retraces her strict Irish-Catholic upbringing in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the shock of early sexual feelings and events. She recounts the guilt of her first love for another woman and the joy of her relationship with her husband, the Japanese sculptor Fumio Yoshimura. With complete candor, Millett reveals a turmoil of memories, fears, and triumphs: her doubts about her own strength in fulfilling the role of visionary for the women's movement, pressure from the movement when she reveals her bisexuality to the press, and, finally, a renewed determination to live and grow as an artist and a writer'.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

University of Illinois Press

A wrenching and intimate autobiography, Sita is an unsparing, moment-by-moment record of the fading of love, with all of its agony and false-dawn respites. For the first time, the original text of Sita is accompanied by the first of Millett's moving prose elegies, written after Sita committed suicide. This lament lends new resonance to the original text and gives the reader a fuller understanding of the mercurial devotion that bound the two women to each other. This reissue also features a new preface by the author.

Sita

LGBTQ+ Books

Millet, author of the landmark Sexual Politics , tells of her struggle to regain control of her life after being diagnosed with manic depression. Haunted by recollections of two brief commitments to mental hospitals, she becomes increasingly terrified of being committed again. Her nightmares come true when she is confined to a mental hospital while traveling in Ireland. A new preface comments on recent movements for patients' rights and notes books that have begun to tread the still-taboo ground of psychiatric confinement. Lacks a subject index. Millet is a feminist activist and writer. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Loony-Bin Trip

"Praised and denounced when it was first published in 1970, "Sexual Politics" not only explored history but also became part of it. Kate Millett's groundbreaking book fueled feminism's second wave, giving voice to the anger of a generation while documenting the inequities - neatly packaged in revered works of literature and art - of a complacent and unrepentant society. "Sexual Politics" laid the foundation for subsequent feminist scholarship by showing how cultural discourse reflects a systematized subjugation and exploitation of women. Identifying patriarchy as a socially conditioned belief system masquerading as nature, Millett demonstrates in detail how its attitudes and systems penetrate literature, philosophy, psychology, and politics. Her incendiary work rocked the foundations of the literary canon by castigating time-honored classics - from D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's "Lover" to Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead" - for their use of sex to degrade and undermine women. A new introduction to this edition draws attention to some of the forms patriarchy has taken recently in consolidating its oppressive and dangerous control."

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The Politics of Cruelty: An Essay On the Literature of Political Imprisonment (Penguin social sciences)

Sexual Politics

Sexual Politics

Sexual Politics

Flying

Sexual politics

Flying

Sita

The Loony-Bin Trip

Sexual Politics