Interpretation Of Feminist Thought In Millett's "Sexual Politics"

Kate Millett,as a representative of feminist ideas,has far-reaching implications.The publication of the representative work "Sexual Politics" marks the birth of the first academic feminist theoretical work and becomes a milestone in feminist criticism.Its radical and profound thoughts promote the formation of radical feminism.Therefore,Millett and Sexual Politics are important figures and works that must be squarely addressed when studying feminist ideas and feminist literary theories.Millett's feminist ideology is concentrated in the book "Sexual Politics".The book "Sexual Politics" is divided into three parts: "sexual political theory","historical background" and "sexual reflection in literature".In this part of "sexual politics theory",Millett proposed that the gender relationship is a political relationship,belonging to domination and subordination,and is a universal power relationship.In the "historical background" section,Millett mainly introduces the historical situation of the feminist movement practice and proposes the "sexual revolution" theory of solving the "sexual politics" problem,so that women can also be freed from private families to obtain public political power.In the section "sexuality reflects in literature",Millett mainly introduces the criticism of gender issues in male writers as female readers."Sexual Politics" combines political and cultural criticism with literary criticism,innovatively synthesizes history,politics,society and literary studies,and produces a new method of feminist literary criticism,constructing a resistive reading style.Around this text,the author interprets from three aspects: “political review of both sexes”,“literary criticism of both sexes” and “female identity”.First,Explain that Millett seeks to interpret the source of the relationship between the two sexes from the perspective of political discourse,and then specifically discusses Millett's political review of the relationship between the two sexes,that is,the proposed "sexual politics" theory and the conception of the "sexual revolution." Secondly,it analyzes the reason that Millett shifts from paying attention to the gender relationship in political power to paying attention to the relationship between men and women in the male literary text,and points out that Millett's literary criticism of male ideology in male writers' work as a female reader The emergence of feminist literary criticism has had a profound impact.Finally,in the discourse system of identity,discussing Millett's political opinions and literary criticism,and examines the deep connotation of feminist ideology embodied in Millett's "Sexual Politics".as a whole,pointing out that Millett "sexual politics" and its ultimate goal of literary criticism is the confirmation of female gender identity,so that women can positively identify women's identity at the level of ideology.