Sexual Politics.
Millet, Kate. Sexual Politics. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970.
8vo.; black cloth stamped in gilt, lightly scuffed; lightly foxed dust-jacket.
First edition. Subtitled A Surprising Examination of Society’s Most Arbitrary Folly, this book sent shock waves through the literary world. In it radical feminist Millet examines the work of “culture heroes” including D.H. Lawrence, Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, and Sigmund Freud. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author, For Ruth, Best wishes, Kate Millet.
Millet (b. 1934) attended the University of Minnesota, Oxford University, and Columbia University. Sexual Politics was a version of her doctoral thesis for the latter institution. Despite repeated hospitalizations for manic depression, Millet continued her activist work and radical feminist writings throughout the 1970s. Her memoir, The Loony-Bin Trip (1990), chronicles some of her battles with mental illness as well as her attempts to create an art colony for women in rural New York.
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