I. Sexual Politics. 1. Instances of Sexual Politics. 2. Theory of Sexual Politics -- II. Historical Background. 3. The Sexual Revolution, First Phase: 1830-1930. Political. Polemical. Literary. 4. The Counterrevolution: 1930-60. A. Reactionary Policy. The Models of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. B. The Reaction in Ideology. Freud and the Influence of Psychoanalytic Thought. Some Post-Freudians. The Influence of Functionalism -- III. The Literary Reflection. 5. D. H. Lawrence. 6. Henry Miller. 7. Norman Mailer. 8. Jean Genet.

"Sexual Politics laid the foundation for subsequent feminist scholarship by showing how cultural discourse reflects a systematized subjugation and exploitation of women. Millett demonstrates in detail how patriarchy's attitudes and systems penetrate literature, philosophy, psychology, and politics. Her incendiary work rocked the foundations of the literary canon by castigating time-honored classics - from D. H.

Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover to Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead - for their use of sex to degrade and undermine women." "A new introduction to this edition draws attention to some of the forms patriarchy has taken recently in consolidating its oppressive and dangerous control."--BOOK JACKET.