Lawrence and Jean Genet) to explore how the patriarchy rules our lives and insinuates itself into our imaginations. Pulsing with righteous fury and scathing humor, it used close literary analysis of four male writers (Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, D.H. Sexual Politics was always a radical text and a risky proposition, though. In her introduction to a paperback edition of Sexual Politics published by University of Illinois Press in 2000, Millett complained that she’d had a hard time getting her book back in print, even though original publisher Doubleday deemed it one of the ten most important books they published in the 20th century. “My ‘feminist classic’ had become a radical text, dubious, far out, a risky proposition,” she wrote. Millett spent the last 47 years writing books, teaching, and engaging in political activism, yet her role as one of the founding theorists of the modern women’s movement had faded into the historical background. By the time she died this week, at age 82 while on vacation with her wife, she had become a kind of cultural ghost. A portrait of her graced the cover of Time magazine, and the media dubbed Millett the Karl Marx and the Mao Tse-Tung of women’s liberation. In 1970, Kate Millett became the reluctant face of the women’s liberation movement with the publication of her book Sexual Politics. Even more than a political system, our sexual order is a 'habit of mind and a way of life.' Millett's book may go far toward subverting it.Kate Millett, one of the founding theorists of the modern women’s movement, died on Tuesday. translates the war of the sexes from the language of nineteenth century bedroom farce into the raw images of guerilla warfare. Washington Post Book WorldĪ well documented intellectual masterpiece. Supremely entertaining to read, brilliantly conceived, overwhelming in its arguments, breathtaking in its command of history and literature. Katie Ryder, "Why Kate Millett Still Matters," BookforumĪ passionate book by an acute literary analyst. In fact, it seems looking back to this old radicalism would help today's feminists to move forward. Millett's arguments cut through contemporary culture almost as surely as they did when written. Leslie Crawford, "Kate Millett, the Ambivalent Feminist," Salon Sexual Politics dissected the beliefs, the cultural language, that supported sexual hierarchy. Millett's classic woke me up, changed my perception of women and myself, as it did for tens of thousands of American women when it first appeared.
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