Sexual Politics (Bobula Ida könyvtárából)

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"Groups who rule by birthright are fast disappearing, yet there re-
mains one ancient and universal scheme for the domination of one •
birth group by another—the scheme that prevails in the area of sex.
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion
obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our
culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power."
KATE MILLETT, SEXUAL POLITICS
"Kate Millett's book on 'sexual polities' is a rare achievement. Its
measure of detachment is earned by learning, reason and love, its
measure of involvement is frankly set out. It is a piece of pas-
sionate thinking on a life-and-death aspect of our private lives .
The book's humor is part of its warmth and tenderness, and in strik-
ing contrast to the chill humorlessness of those other two great
feminists, Simone de Beauvoir and Doris Lessing. . . . SEXUAL
POLITICS is a remarkable document because it analyzes the need
and nature of sexual liberation... Tovább

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"Groups who rule by birthright are fast disappearing, yet there re-
mains one ancient and universal scheme for the domination of one •
birth group by another—the scheme that prevails in the area of sex.
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion
obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our
culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power."
KATE MILLETT, SEXUAL POLITICS
"Kate Millett's book on 'sexual polities' is a rare achievement. Its
measure of detachment is earned by learning, reason and love, its
measure of involvement is frankly set out. It is a piece of pas-
sionate thinking on a life-and-death aspect of our private lives .
The book's humor is part of its warmth and tenderness, and in strik-
ing contrast to the chill humorlessness of those other two great
feminists, Simone de Beauvoir and Doris Lessing. . . . SEXUAL
POLITICS is a remarkable document because it analyzes the need
and nature of sexual liberation while itself displaying the virtues
of intellectual and emotional openness and lovingness."
BARBARA HARDY, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
KATE MILLETT was born in St. Paul and is an honors graduate of
the University of Minnesota and Oxford University. Her Ph.D. in
English and comparative literature is from Columbia. She is a
sculptor and has taught literature and philosophy. She lives in New
York City with her husband, the sculptor Fumio Yoshimura. Vissza