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Apart from financial need, however, there are psychopathic explanations for women selling themselves. As Kate Millett wrote in Sexual Politics: "Prostitution, when unmotivated by economic need, might well be defined as a species of psychological addiction, built on self-hatred." And in an ironic reversal of that view, Ti-Grace Atkinson has argued that "prostitutes are the only honest women left in America, because they charge for their services rather than submit to a marriage contract which forces them to work for life without...
...would think that Kate Millett or Germaine Greer were feeding the gentlemen their lines. More than 300 earnest women-ranging from Black Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm to Writer Gloria Steinem to Betty Smith, former vice chairman of Wisconsin Republicans-met in Washington last week to form a National Women's Political Caucus. Its goal: to seek out and promote candidates of either sex, preferably women, who will work to eliminate "sexism, racism, violence and poverty." And what was the reaction in San Clemente? Discussing a newspaper photograph of four of the caucus leaders, Secretary of State William Rogers remarked that...
...seems to have become its hallmark. "The majority of women drag along from day to day in an apathetic twilight," states Germaine Greer unequivocally in The Female Eunuch. She warns that "women have very little idea of how much men hate them." The draconian arbiter of Sexual Politics, Kate Millett, has mentioned the "envy or amusement" she noticed in certain men when Richard Speck murdered eight nurses...
...Elizabeth Janeway, 57, a novelist and mother of two sons who stands somewhat apart from the movement, provides a low-keyed discussion of this valid notion in a new book called Man's World; Woman's Place (William Morrow; $8.95). Unlike Millett, who drew on fiction, or Greer, whose examples came mostly from pop culture, Janeway borrows from academic sociology to explain how society maintains itself by means of roles and myths. One of her basic themes, applicable to either sex, is that individuals find it easier to adopt a ready-made self than to create...
...What should women do about lovers who treat them only as sexual objects? Kate Millett suggests that women are virtually powerless before such men-Lady Chatterley before Mellors, for example. In celebrating the "transformation of masculine ascendancy into a mystical religion," D.H. Lawrence presents "sexual politics in its most overpowering form," she wrote. Katherine Anne Porter, no feminist at all but a perceptive novelist, analyzed the situation quite differently. "It is plain," she wrote in an essay eleven years ago, "that Lady Chatterley will shortly be looking for another man; I give Mellors two years at the rate...