Kate Millett

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.

Sexual Politics

"The crew's anxieties come to a head when they have a wild party down route in Manhattan. The repercussions of that night haunt the journey home until they can be contained no further."--BOOK JACKET.

Flying

From one of the most influential figures of the last twenty years--the author of Sexual Politics--comes this brilliant work in which Kate Millet sets out a new theory of politics for our time, a harrowing view of the modern state based on the practice of torture as a method of rule, as conscious policy. It is, in the words of the noted Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya, "a passionate, heroic effort to fathom the nature of a phenomenon that all too often drains us emotionally and incapacitates us intellectually." Millett analyzes the individual's monumental fear of the state through the rich literature of its expression--a mixture of literary text (Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Mathabane's Kaffir Boy, Bharadwaj's film Closet Land), the reports of witnesses, legal theory, and historical account. The literary version of their experience is the most arresting; it prevails and persuades with the greatest effect: the reality of the victim, the social and psychological climate of life under dictatorship, the moment of capture when one is "disappeared," that pivotal electronic second after which nothing is ever the same.

An Essay on the Literature of Political Imprisonment

The Politics of Cruelty

A personal story of Kate Millett's struggle to regain control of her life after falling under an ascription of manic depression.

The Loony-Bin Trip

Aurora Echevarría Pérez

Viaje al manicomio

Sokak Kadınları

Sexualpolitiken

Presents moment-by-moment record of the fading of love, with all of its agony and false-dawn respites. This book follows the disintegration of the author's love affair with a woman who is ten years her senior, a veteran of several marriages, and the mother of grown children.

Sita

El gran interés de este ensayo de Kate Millett —ensayo que, a pesar de su modernidad, se ha convertido en un clásico de la literatura feminista— radica en la coexistencia en su análisis de dos críticas, la literaria y la cultural, que permiten captar los nítidos reflejos que la literatura ofrece de esa vida que describe, interpreta e incluso deforma. «Política sexual» se divide en tres grandes partes. La primera gira en torno a la afirmación de Millett de que el sexo reviste un cariz político que suele pasar inadvertido la mayoría de las veces. La segunda parte es eminentemente histórica y su objetivo es aclarar la transformación de las relaciones sexuales tradicionales, experimentada a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX. En la tercera parte Kate Millett se centra en las consideraciones literarias estudiando la obra de autores tan representativos de esa época como D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer y, como contraste frente a éstos, Jean Genet.

Política sexual

Maryse Holder

Edith Jones

Selma Yampolsky

One woman's shocking descent into a provocative world of lust and danger. As Maryse Holder's letters explore the last, eventful months in her life, they speak directly to the reader—forcing us to confront the pain, and even sometimes the passion, of living on the very edge of life, to the end.

Maryse Holder's Letters from Mexico

Give Sorrow Words

Versuch über die Folter

Entmenschlicht

1965 wurde in Indianapolis der abgezehrte, mißhandelte Leichnam der 16jährigen Sylvia Likens aufgefunden. Vorausgegangen war ein monatelanges Martyrium im Hause der 36jährigen Gertrude Baniszewski, der sie in »Pflege« gegeben war. Gertrude folterte das Mädchen zusammen mit dreien ihrer Kinder und Jugendlichen aus der Nachbarschaft zu Tode. Kate Millett lotet die ganze Ungeheuerlichkeit dieses Verbrechens aus und fügt mit ihren Überlegungen dem Thema »Gewalt gegen Frauen« einen neuen Akzent hinzu: die Frau als das durch anerzogene Scham konditionierte Opfer. Erst wenn die Frauen zu einer neuen Wertschätzung ihrer selbst, ihres Körpers kommen, werden sie sich dem Teufelskreis aus Scham – Opfer – Gewalt entziehen können.

Meditationen über ein Menschenopfer

Im Basement

The Ancrene Wisse, a guide for female recluses in the West Midlands in the early thirteenth century, and the closely related works of the "Katherine Group," offer vivid and fascinating insights into the religious life of the time. The difficulty of the language however, which skillfully blends Latin and native English stylistic traditions, has made the documents largely inaccessible to all but experts in Middle English. This edition presents the works in a new and readable critical text that includes interspersed translations, notes, a select glossary, and a general introduction, making this volume highly useful to undergraduates and generalists with limited knowledge of Middle English.

Selections from the Katherine Group and Ancrene Wisse

Medieval English Prose for Women

A poignant memoir of loss and reestablishment.

Mother Millett

A Candid Dialogue

The Prostitution Papers

A profile of the author's Aunt Dorothy, who was called A. D. or Anno Domina by Millett and her two sisters, offers a dialogue between student and teacher that also reveals the gay experience in 1950s America.

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