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Mother Millett
Kate Millett
出版
Verso
, 2001
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Biography & Autobiography / Women
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Biography & Autobiography / LGBTQ
Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists
Family & Relationships / Parenting / Motherhood
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
ISBN
1859846076
9781859846070
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uBTLqEZocKkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Kate Millett.s tremulous and hauntingly beautiful memoir begins with a telephone call from Minnesota where her mother is dying. Her return home to a severe, intelligent, and controlling matriarch is the catalyst for a meditation on her upbringing in middle America and her subsequent outcast status as a political activist, artist, and lesbian.
Mother Millett
is an intensely personal journey through the author.s interior life, a subject she has visited over the years in such classic texts as
Sita
and
The Loony Bin Trip
. In these pages are reflections on a life of political engagement, beginning with the sexual politics of the feminist movement, proceeding to the struggle for gay liberation, and culminating in her campaign for housing rights on the Lower East Side of New York where she and her neighbors currently face eviction. Throughout, Millett confronts her fears of losing her mother, the anchor to a world she has long ago rejected but which continues to define her. Echoing Philip Roth.s
Patrimony
, Millett writes with great poignancy about caring for the person who brought her into the world, a role reversal that brings with it both devastation and grace.