Kate Millett, Sexual Politics, 1970 ✓
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Je travaille sur l’édition de poche de 1983 en français.
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Ce livre célèbre a connu de nombreuses rééditions (et traductions), mais, un temps, un passage à vide, d'où ce cri du cœur :
It is a great pleasure to me to see a new edition of this work, my first book, back in print after an absence of nearly seven years. When a book goes out of print, its author feels an erasure, almost as if it had never been published, as if a beloved offspring has become one of the “disappeared.” While going out of print was almost accidental in this title’s case, getting it back in print was a big problem. […]
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Trying to get back into print was tedious, humiliating, and time consuming, sapping the energy for new writing. Life was on hold for months and then years while one or another editor failed to call back. I held out not only for Sexual Politics, my doctoral thesis and first book, but also for the handful of titles that were my life’s work. Then one day Will Regier, prompted by Kim Grossmann, of the University of Illinois Press called up out of the blue and offered to reprint the four titles in this series: Sexual Politics, Sita, Flying and The Loony Bin Trip. The heavens opened.
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De la partie I, une version préliminaire du chapitre 1, d’exemples littéraires, a été publiée (p. 311-334) dans l’anthologie Sister is Powerful (sous la direction de Robin Morgan) en septembre 1970, sur la base de la publication dans la New American Review, no 7, 1969 : « Kate Millett on ‘Sexual Politics: Miller, Mailer and Genet’ », avant la version définitive dans le livre.
Du chapitre 2, théorique, on connait trois versions : (1) une version préliminaire a été présentée en novembre 1968 à Cornell University (à ne pas confondre avec (0) un Manifesto de 1968 également) et (2) une version retravaillée a été publiée au printemps 1970, avant (3) la version définitive dans le livre.
- xiPreface
- 1 Part I. Sexual Politics
- 31. Instances of Sexual Politics
- 232. Theory of Sexual Politics
- 59 Part II. Historical Background
- 61 3. The Sexual Revolution, First Phase: 1830–1930
- 61Political
- 88Polemical
- 127Literary
- 157 4. The Counterrevolution: 1930–60
- A. Reactionary Policy
- 157The Models of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union
- B. The Reaction in Ideology
- 176Freud and the Influence of Psychoanalytic Thought
- 203Some Post-Freudians
- 220The Influence of Functionalism
- A. Reactionary Policy
- 61 3. The Sexual Revolution, First Phase: 1830–1930
- 235 Part III. The Literary Reflection
- 2375. D. H. Lawrence
- 2946. Henry Miller
- 3147. Norman Mailer
- 3368. Jean Genet
- 362Postscript