Kate Millett

SB 's many honours during her lifetime included the Sonning Prize for European Culture in 1983, and an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University . There is a Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University in...

Nearly twenty years later Sylvia Pankhurst accused this book of sensationalism and of preaching the sex war deprecated and denied by the older Suffragists.In the later twentieth century it was dismissed by a...

SB produces a treatise rather than a polemic, using a studied moderation of tone. She deploys an artful range of styles and her material is drawn from biology, history, sociology, economics, and in a large...

EF said later that she wrote this book because she felt angry and wanted to change people's attitudes (her usual motive for non-fiction, she wrote later, was anger or outrage). While working on her...