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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References to this book
The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction Judith Fetterley No preview available - 1978 |