Sexual Politics

Author: Kate Millett
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231541724
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
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.

Sexual Politics and Feminist Science

Author: Kirsten Leng
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501713248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
Introduction : women and sexology : knowledge, possibilities, and problematic legacies -- The emergence of sexology in early twentieth century Germany -- As natural as eating, drinking, and sleeping : redefining the female sex -- Challenging the limits of sex : envisioning new gendered subjectivities and sexualities -- Troubling normal, taking on patriarchy : criticizing male (hetero)sexuality -- The erotics of racial regeneration : eugenics, maternity, and sexual -- New social and moral values will have to prevail : negotiating crisis and opportunity in the First World War -- Fluid gender, rigid sexuality : constrained potential in the post-war period

The Sexual Politics of Disability

Author: Tom Shakespeare
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
While the civil rights movement has put disability issues centre-stage, there has been minimal discussion of disabled people's sexuality. This book, based on first-hand accounts, takes a close look at questions of identity, relationships, sex, love, parenting and abuse and demolishes the taboo around disability and sex. It shows the barriers to disabled people's sexual rights and sexual expression, and also the ways in which these obstacles are being challenged. Variously moving, angry, funny and proud, The Sexual Politics of Disability is about disabled people sharing their stories and claiming their place as sexual beings. It is a pioneering work, and essential reading for anyone interested in disability or sexual politics.

The Sexual Politics of Meat (20th Anniversary Edition)

Author: Carol J. Adams
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441173285
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
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Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment

Author: Mary Seidman Trouille
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438422342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426

Book Description
Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment constitutes the first book-length feminist study of Rousseau's sexual politics and the reception of his works by women readers. By today's standards, Rousseau's sexual politics appear reactionary, paternalistic, even blatantly misogynist; yet, among his female contemporaries, his works often met with enthusiastic approval and had tremendous impact on their values and behavior. To probe Rousseau's paradoxical appeal to eighteenth-century readers, Mary Trouille examines how seven women authors responded to his writings and sexual politics and traces his influence on their lives and works. The writers include six Frenchwomen (Roland, d'Epinay, Stael, Genlis, Gouges, and an anonymous woman correspondent who called herself Henriette) and the English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. The book constitutes an important contribution to French literature, women's studies, and eighteenth-century cultural studies. While a great deal has already been written on the individual women whom Trouille treats, what distinguishes this book is that it places multiple female subjects directly opposite Rousseau, and succeeds in showing that the relationship between mentor and student(s) is both multi-layered and fascinatingly complex.

The Sexual Politics of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Author: Joel Schwartz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226742245
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Joel Schwartz presents the first systematic treatment of Rousseau's understanding of the political importance of women, sexuality, and the family. Using both Rousseau's lesser-known literary works and such major writings as Emile, Julie, and The Second Discourse, he offers an original and provocative presentation of Rousseau's argument. To read Rousseau, Schwartz believes, is to enter into a profound discourse about the meaning of sexual equality and the opportunities, pitfalls, costs, and benefits that sexual relationships bestow and impose on us all. His own thoughtful reading of Rousseau opens up fresh perspectives on political philosophy and the history of sexual, masculine, and feminine psychology.

Sexual Politics in Modern Ireland

Author: Jennifer Redmond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780716532842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Includes biographical notes on the contributors.

Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities

Author: John D'Emilio
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226142678
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Preface, 1998AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Identity, Community, and Oppression: A Sexual Minority in the Making1. Homosexuality and American Society: An Overview2. Forging a Group Identity: World War II and the Emergence of an Urban Gay Subculture3. The Bonds of Oppression: Gay Life in the 1950sPart 2. The 1950s: Radical Visions and Conformist Pressures4. Radical Beginnings of the Mattachine Society5. Retreat the Respectability6. Dual Identity and Lesbian Autonomy: The Beginnings of Separate Organizing Among Women7. The Quest for LegitimacyPart 3. The 1960s: Civil Rights and the Pursuit of Equality8. Gay Life in the Public Eye9. Civil Rights and Direct Action: The New East Coast Militancy, 1961-196510. The Movement and the Subculture Converge: San Francisco During the Early 1960s11. High Hopes and Modest GainsPart 4. The Liberation Impulse12. A New Beginning: The Birth of Gay Liberation13. ConclusionAfterword, 1998Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Recreating Sexual Politics

Author: Victor J. Seidler
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415570891
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 519

Book Description
First published in 1991, this title examines sexual politics in a world which is being radically changed by the challenges of feminism. Seidler explores how men have responded to feminism, and the contradictory feelings men have towards dominant forms of masculinity.

Sexual Politics

Author: Kate Millett
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068898
Category : Sex in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 422

Book Description
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. Millett demonstrates in detail how patriarchy's 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.