Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

Author:Kate Millett
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Women's Studies, Literary Criticism, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science, Women's Movement
ISBN: 9780252068898
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1971-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

A later translator is more explicit and expresses the last phrase as “independent of the woman’s consent.” The very male libido is now to be respected as a power in the service of life and must be permitted to wreak its will on the female whether she has the wit to co-operate or not. The frigid woman (and Freud studied a great many of them) is brought on as an example of the male’s superior regard for posterity. Nature, Freud concludes, has simply neglected to provide the female with a forceful libido; what happens then is her fault. The whole balance of male sexual aggression toward the female is hereby subsumed under a huge abstract force only concerned with the continuation of the species. This attitude gave rise to a whole battery of military diction which psychology has ever since employed to describe sexuality: surrender, dominance, mastery.

The male pursues the female for the purposes of sexual union, seizes hold of her and penetrates into her … by this you have precisely reduced the characteristic of masculinity to the factor of aggressiveness.105

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