Whose book Sexual Politics was a landmark in feminist thinking?
Sexual Politics "the Bible of Women's Liberation." The article, titled "De Beauvoir Lessing- Now, Kate Millett" was written by Marcia Seligson and praised the book as "a piece of passionate thinking on a life-and-death aspect of our public and private lives." Sexual Politics Sexual Politics is a 1970 book by Kate Millett, based on her PhD dissertation. The book is regarded as a classic of feminism and one of radical feminism's key texts. Millett argues that "sex has a frequently neglected political aspect" and goes on to discuss the role that patriarchy plays in sexual relations, looking especially at the works of
Sexual Politics discussed at length include Sigmund Freud, George Meredith, John Ruskin, and John Stuart Mill. "Sexual Politics" was largely influenced by Simone De Beauvoir's 1949 book "The Second Sex," although De Beauvoir's text is known for being more intellectually-focused and less emotionally invigorating than Millett's text. "Sexual Politics" has been seen as a classic feminist text, said to be "the first book of academic feminist literary criticism", and "one of the first feminist books of this decade to raise nationwide male ire", though like Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" (1963) and Germaine Greer's "The Female Eunuch" (1970), its status has declined.