Identifying patriarchy as a socially conditioned belief system masquerading as nature, the author demonstrates how its attitudes and systems penetrate literature, philosophy, psycho...
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Number of Pages: 424
ISBN: 0252068890
ISBN-13: 9780252068898
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Phil Treagus-Evans @philtreagus
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Jun 23, 2019
- Curated in THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS ON FEMINISM
Kate Millett’s 1969 “Sexual Politics” still stands as one of the best analyses of patriarchy, what it is, how it works and how it can, must and will be ended. As she writes in this book, when something is taken for granted so much, it is a political act to even speak of it out loud, to acknowledge the existence of centuries of sexist oppression and name patriarchy as a failed system of social governance.