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...generally suspect as minions of the so-called "Establishment." Nevertheless, in the hope that they could gain an understanding of their subjects that no man could, TIME drew widely on its large group of women staffers to gather material for this week's cover story on Kate Millett and the Women's Liberation movement. In most instances it turned out to be a rewarding assignment. "Kate Millett and the others I saw really do treat other women as sisters, trying to help them. They were kind, thoughtful and cooperative," says Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, who led the reporting team...
...passage now bears a powerful psychological impact. Throughout the nation, many thousands of women are awakening to a new sensitivity about what Author Kate Millett (TIME, Aug. 3) calls "sexual politics." In every major city, women, most of them young, gather for "consciousness-raising" rap sessions, the awareness rituals of The Sisterhood. The National Organization for Women (NOW) and other feminist groups have called on women to stage a Strike for Equality on Aug. 26. Last week, in a preliminary demonstration, feminists brandished antisexist placards beneath the Statue of Liberty...
...already happened at your house, braless converts to the Women's Liberation Movement are poised to leap right off the panels of the TV talk shows and play hell with your pipe and slippers. Sooner or later they will probably be armed with a copy of Kate Millett's Sexual Politics. Despite placards and slogans, revolutions need theoretical touchstones, dialectics to subdue the opposition. In this regard, Sexual Politics will have its uses. Without making explicit comparisons with other contemporary movements, Millett attempts to place Women's Lib in the roiling main currents of the struggle...
...year-old American sculptor and active New York feminist who graduated with honors from the University of Minnesota and Oxford, Millett views male supremacy as a myth that has been kept alive for thousands of years by a grandiose patriarchal conspiracy. "Primitive society," she writes, "practices its misogyny in terms of taboo and mana which evolve into explanatory myth. In historical cultures, this is transformed into ethical, then literary, and in the modern period, scientific rationalizations for the sexual politic...
...worst enemies are those who are thought to maintain their power and prerogatives with self-deluding and unctuous paternalism. Millett singles out 19th century chivalry, particularly as it is enshrined in the works of Tennyson and Ruskin. Like other feminist writers, Millett views such legends of feminine evil as Pandora's Box and the fall from Eden as basic instruments of patriarchal power. The etiquette of courtly and romantic love is also interpreted as a male method of emotionally manipulating and exploiting women, "since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity...