The Prisoner of SexHere, by America's foremost candidate for the Nobel Prize, is the book that some fifteen years ago created a firestorm among true believeers of the women's liberation movement, and which on rereading and contemplation emerges as one of the most sensible, sensitive and probing works on the ageless dialectic of man, woman, man-woman ever to be written. |
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PRISONER OF SEX
User Review - KirkusDisingenuously shocked to find himself cast by Women's Lib as the archetypal male chauvinist pig, Mailer takes on Kate Millett (Sexual Politics, 1970) and her sister furies. He wins hands down as ... Read full review
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User Review - dbsovereign - LibraryThingFlawed Mailer, but remorselessly brutal nevertheless. One may not always agree with him, but can still admire the way he pontificates. Read full review
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