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Kate Millett · 1970
Second-wave feminist literary criticism. Foundational text for sexuality-theory domain candidacy (ASN-1246).
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What this book knows
Sex is a political institution: patriarchy sustains itself through ideology, violence, and literary culture, not biology.
obedience-and-authority
Male supremacy, like other political creeds, does not finally reside in physical strength but in the acceptance of a value system which is not biological.
MILL-SP-RC-046Although she will never relinquish some hope of acquiring a penis, a baby is as close as she can come to such an acquisition.
MILL-SP-RC-223Sue returns to the 'fanatic prostitution' of living with her first husband, a man she despised. Both rebels are beaten.
MILL-SP-RC-156erotic-as-power
Genet has fastened upon the most fundamental of society's arbitrary follies, its view of sex as a caste.
MILL-SP-RC-038Sexual congress in a Mailer novel is always a matter of strenuous endeavor—a straining ever upward after achievement.
MILL-SP-RC-032embodiment
Lawrence is a passionate believer in the myth of nature which has ordained that female personality is congenital, even her shame not the product of conditioning, but innate.
MILL-SP-RC-293Illuminates
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