The Hybrid Criticism of Patriarchy

Rereading Kate Millett's Sexual Politics

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ID2276726
AuthorsPatricia Ticineto Clough (0000-0003-1786-6313, Queens College, CUNY, corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume35
Issue3
Pages473-486
Publication date1994-08-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1533-8525.1994.tb01740.x
OpenAlexW2172291625
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited9

While much might be said about the exclusion of feminist texts from the canon of sociological classics, I instead want to offer a rereading of Kate Millett's Sexual Politics to show how the development of feminist theory has depended on rereading disciplinary canons, thereby re-opening the borders between the disciplines, especially the border between literary criticism and social science. At a time when sociologists are participating in or at least attending to the debates over the relationship of fantasy and reality, fiction and history, polemic and academic discourse, rereading Sexual Politics offers an understanding of how these debates have arisen in relationship to feminist theory's ongoing challenge to the canonical distinction of social science from literary criticism. Thus, rather than press for the canonization of Sexual Politics as a sociological classic, I want to suggest that feminist theorizing needs to sustain itself as a social criticism that includes a transdisciplinary criticism of canonicity

Criticism · Discipline · Fantasy · Literary criticism · Literary theory · Literature · Patriarchy · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociological criticism · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Psychology

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