Sexual Politics

How does Jean Genet’s writing reflect, parody, and subvert heterosexual society’s understanding of masculine and feminine?

The Woman’s Movement and the sexual revolution more broadly focused primarily on the political and material structures of patriarchy. What did this overlook and how did this set the scene for the counterrevolution?

Both Henry Miller and Norman Mailer present themselves as challenging conservatism and puritanical views of sex. To what degree is this actually reflected in their writing?

What parallels can be drawn between Freud’s theories and the works of D. H. Lawrence?

Millett suggests that the first phase of the sexual revolution was incomplete. In what ways did it fall short of being a true revolution?

How does the conflation of male sexuality, violence, and domination shape the works of Lawrence, Miller, and Mailer?

The notion that women are dangerous and impure has deep roots. In what ways does this idea manifest and how is it reflected in literature?

How does the notion that masculinity must be earned and proven manifest in the works of Miller and Mailer?