52 pages 1 hour read

Kate Millett

Sexual Politics

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1970

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Essay Topics

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How does Millett support her thesis that “sex is a status category with political implications” (24)?

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How does Jean Genet’s writing reflect, parody, and subvert heterosexual society’s understanding of masculine and feminine?

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The Woman’s Movement and the sexual revolution more broadly focused primarily on the political and material structures of patriarchy. What did this overlook and how did this set the scene for the counterrevolution?

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