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The Politics of Cruelty

An Essay on the Literature of Political Imprisonment

The Politics of Cruelty( )
Author: Millett, Kate
ISBN:978-0-393-31312-3
Publication Date:Jun 1995
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $23.95
Book Description:

From one of the most influential figures of the last twenty years--the author of Sexual Politics--comes this brilliant work in which Kate Millet sets out a new theory of politics for our time, a harrowing view of the modern state based on the practice of torture as a method of rule, as conscious policy.

Book Details
Pages:336
Detailed Subjects: Political Science / Political Freedom
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.3 x 1 Inches
Book Weight:0.917 Pounds
Author Biography
Millett, Kate (Author)
Katherine Murray Millett was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 14, 1934. She graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1956. After teaching briefly at the University of North Carolina, she pursued her art career in Japan and then New York, where she took a job at Barnard College teaching English literature. She received a PhD from Columbia University. Her doctoral dissertation, Sexual Politics, was published in 1970. Her other books include Flying, Sita, Going to Iran, The Loony-Bin Trip, and Mother Millett. She died from cardiac arrest on September 6, 2017 at the age of 82.

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