{"product_id":"sexual-politics-by-kate-millett","title":"'Sexual Politics' by Kate Millett","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"179\" data-end=\"485\"\u003eWhen \u003cem data-start=\"184\" data-end=\"201\"\u003eSexual Politics\u003c\/em\u003e appeared in 1969 it detonated inside literary criticism and second-wave feminism at the same time.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"179\" data-end=\"485\"\u003eKate Millett argues that relations between men and women operate as a political system — one embedded not only in law and economics, but in culture, literature, and the private sphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"487\" data-end=\"976\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe book is famous for its close readings of canonical male writers — particularly \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eD. H. Lawrence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eHenry Miller\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, and \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eNorman Mailer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e — examining how sexual domination and hierarchy are encoded in the literary imagination. Millett’s analysis helped shift feminism into the terrain of cultural criticism, arguing that patriarchy functions as a pervasive ideological system rather than a collection of isolated injustices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"978\" data-end=\"1102\"\u003ePart polemic, part literary study, \u003cem data-start=\"1013\" data-end=\"1030\"\u003eSexual Politics\u003c\/em\u003e remains one of the defining texts of twentieth-century feminist theory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44174896529491,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/ScholarsCreatingDigitalMapsofSpinoza_sEthics-2026-03-08T145904.588.png?v=1772942366","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/sexual-politics-by-kate-millett","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}