Product Description: Política sexual. El gran interés de este ensayo de Kate Millett #ensayo que, a pesar de su modernidad, se ha convertido en un clásico de la literatura feminista# radica en la coexistencia en su análisis de dos críticas, la literaria y la cultural, que permiten captar los nítidos reflejos que la literatura ofrece de esa vid...read more

Product Description: Kate Millett’s tremulous and hauntingly beautiful memoir begins with a telephone call from Minnesota where her mother is dying. Her return home to a severe, intelligent, and controlling matriarch is the catalyst for a meditation on her upbringing in middle America and her subsequent outcast status as a political activist, artist, and lesbian...read more

'In a kaleidoscopic, almost cinematic style, Kate Millett unreels her inner and outer life during one decisive year: the year after "Sexual Politics" transformed her almost overnight from unknown sculptor to media star. In the heady atmosphere of instant fame, while she is constantly moving between New York and London, Cape Cod and her farm in Poughkeepsie, Millett's days and nights are filled with flashes of anger, moments of intimacy, appointments, funerals, divorces, parties, and meetings. Her response is to write it all down, resulting in the book she called 'the most fun I ever had as a writer'. A rushing, swirling outpouring of intimate self-revelation, "Flying" sweeps the reader along in a whirlwind of anxiety, exhilaration, and white-hot passion'.'Millett retraces her strict Irish-Catholic upbringing in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the shock of early sexual feelings and events. She recounts the guilt of her first love for another woman and the joy of her relationship with her husband, the Japanese sculptor Fumio Yoshimura. With complete candor, Millett reveals a turmoil of memories, fears, and triumphs: her doubts about her own strength in fulfilling the role of visionary for the women's movement, pressure from the movement when she reveals her bisexuality to the press, and, finally, a renewed determination to live and grow as an artist and a writer'.

Product Description: Millet, author of the landmark Sexual Politics , tells of her struggle to regain control of her life after being diagnosed with manic depression. Haunted by recollections of two brief commitments to mental hospitals, she becomes increasingly terrified of being committed again...read more

Records the moment-by-moment pains and respites of a fading love affair between the author and an older, several-times-married woman whose dramatically varied life and large-gestured, temperamental approach to her lover and her several grown children cannot be contained

A profile of the author's Aunt Dorothy, who was called A. D. or Anno Domina by Millett and her two sisters, offers a dialogue between student and teacher that also reveals the gay experience in 1950s America.

Looks at the practice of torture as conscious policy and analyzes the fear of government as it is expressed in such texts as 'The Gulag Archipelago' and 'Kaffir Boy'

Probes the brutal torture and death of sixteen-year-old Sylvia Likens who was victimized and killed in the basement of Gertrude Baniszewski, with whom she was boarding--her tormentors being Gertrude and a group of teenagers

Examines the power struggle which exists between men and women and the way in which it is reflected in the literary works of D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet (view table of contents)