The challenge for us in thinking about “Sexual Politics” now is the weariness of knowing Ms. Millett’s analysis isn’t yet outdated. For Ms. Millett, misogynist literature — exemplified by the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer and Jean Genet — was the primary vehicle of masculine hostility. But I love Ms. Millett for her ambition. I pulled out Ms. Millett’s book and opened it to the Postscript. Perhaps, after all these years, it wasn’t just Ms. Millett’s élan, or confidence, or ambition, or erudition.

Source: New York Times September 07, 2017 22:52 UTC