The Prisoner of Sex

Norman Mailer

Primus, 1985 - Sex differences (Psychology) - 240 pages

Here, 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

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Disingenuously 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 ...

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User Review  - dbsovereign - LibraryThing

Flawed Mailer, but remorselessly brutal nevertheless. One may not always agree with him, but can still admire the way he pontificates.

Contents

• Section 1: 50
• Section 2: 58
• Section 3: 187

About the author

Norman Kingsley Mailer was born on January 31, 1923 in Long Branch, N. J. and then moved with his family to Brooklyn, N. Y. Mailer later attended Harvard University and graduated with a degree in aeronautical engineering. Mailer served in the Army during World War II, and later wrote, directed, and acted in motion pictures. He was also a co-founder of the Village Voice and edited Disssent for nine years. Mailer has written several books including: The Armies of the Night, which won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and a Polk Award; and The Executioner's Song, which won the Pulitzer Prize. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. He published his last novel, The Castle in the Forest, in 2007. He died of acute renal failure on November 10, 2007.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Prisoner of Sex; Primus books; The Primus library of contemporary Americana
• Author: Norman Mailer
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Primus, 1985
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Nov 5, 2008
• ISBN: 0917657594, 9780917657597
• Length: 240 pages