Sheila Jeffreys lectures on Kate Millet's Sexual Politics
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:39 pmhttp://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.
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.