The Prisoner Of Sex
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: On long tear on front of jacket, otherwise fine. Pages crisp
A provocative work of literary criticism and personal polemic, The Prisoner of Sex presents Norman Mailer's fierce, unapologetic response to the feminist movement of the early 1970s, particularly targeting the arguments of Kate Millett, Germaine Greer, and other leading voices of the era. Written in Mailer's characteristically bold and combative style, the work argues that the relationship between men and women is rooted in a primal, irreducible tension that cannot be dissolved by ideology or political theory. With equal parts intellectual ambition and raw ego, Mailer positions himself as both defendant and prosecutor, dissecting the works of D.H. Lawrence and Henry Miller to illustrate his vision of sexuality as a force inseparable from power, creativity, and identity. The result is a charged, often maddening, and undeniably stimulating piece of cultural criticism that illuminates the fault lines of one of the twentieth century's most contentious debates.
Author: Norman Mailer
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: On long tear on front of jacket, otherwise fine. Pages crisp
A provocative work of literary criticism and personal polemic, The Prisoner of Sex presents Norman Mailer's fierce, unapologetic response to the feminist movement of the early 1970s, particularly targeting the arguments of Kate Millett, Germaine Greer, and other leading voices of the era. Written in Mailer's characteristically bold and combative style, the work argues that the relationship between men and women is rooted in a primal, irreducible tension that cannot be dissolved by ideology or political theory. With equal parts intellectual ambition and raw ego, Mailer positions himself as both defendant and prosecutor, dissecting the works of D.H. Lawrence and Henry Miller to illustrate his vision of sexuality as a force inseparable from power, creativity, and identity. The result is a charged, often maddening, and undeniably stimulating piece of cultural criticism that illuminates the fault lines of one of the twentieth century's most contentious debates.