Women's Oppression In Kate Millet's "Sexual Politics" and Lynne Ford's "Women and Politics"

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and 'undesirable' sex (contained in Millet's discourse). This paper will discuss some of the controversial issues that the authors posited in their book about women oppression from its early origins until the present time in the American setting.

Between the two books, Kate Millet's discourse provides a critical look on how femininity as sex and gender is treated with disdain and disapproval by the society, men and women (themselves) alike. Millet provides her theory of sexual politics, a theory where ideological, sociological, biological, class, etc. factors affect the way women oppression has been perpetuated in the society from the early times to the present one. Millet's theory of sexual politics provides new insights and fresh ideas where women subservience may have originated. The author first discusses the ideological basis for women subservience by stating that society has designated images for men and women that distinguish the former from the latter: ...

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