http://www.themonthly.com.au/tm/node/1564
Talking about how the masculinist woman-hating culture of the so-called sexually liberated male authors in the middle of the last century that Millet analysed and challenged has now found a new and much larger outlet in pornography.
Worth paying attention to the descriptions by the male protagonists in these stories talking about their sexual encounters with women, where what sound like reactions to rape (all over shaking, crouching in a corner, inability to speak) are used as "proof" of the animalistic sexuality of women.
Sheila Jeffreys lectures on Kate Millet's Sexual Politics
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Sheila Jeffreys lectures on Kate Millet's Sexual Politics
by delphyne » Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:39 pm
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Re: Sheila Jeffreys lectures on Kate Millet's Sexual Politics
by MaggieH » Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:53 pm
I really, really loved watching & listening to this lecture the other day. Kate Millett was spot on in so many of her analyses. Sheila Jeffreys has a very acute knowledge of how awfully woman-hating this culture has become. For sure, we will need more writers like Sheila Jeffreys or Kate Millett in the future.
"The assumption that "most women are innately heterosexual'' stands as a theoretical and political stumbling block for many women. It remains a tenable assumption, partly because lesbian existence has been written out of history or catalogued under disease;. . . partly because to acknowledge that for women heterosexuality may not be a "preference" at all but something that has had to be imposed, managed, organized, propagandized and maintained by force is an immense step to take if you consider yourself freely and "innately" heterosexual. Yet the failure to examine heterosexuality as an institution is like failing to admit that the economic system called capitalism or the caste system of racism is maintained by a variety of forces, including both physical violence and false consciousness. . ."
-- Adrienne Rich, in Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence: http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500compulsoryhet.htm
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” ~ Alice Walker
-- Adrienne Rich, in Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence: http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500compulsoryhet.htm
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” ~ Alice Walker
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Re: Sheila Jeffreys lectures on Kate Millet's Sexual Politics
by SaltyC » Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:49 pm
Three words: wow, wow and wow. I've had this book on my shelf for many years, now I will finally read it.
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Re: Sheila Jeffreys lectures on Kate Millet's Sexual Politics
by phio gistic » Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:33 am
thanks for posting this, I really enjoyed the lecture and have ordered books by Jeffreys and Millet!
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