Barbara Hardy
"This is a book that analyzes revolution in order to serve revolution...The book's humor is part of its warmth and tenderness, and in striking contrast, I thought, to the chill humorlessness of those other two great feminists, Simone de Beauvoir and Doris Lessing."
Books of the Century, The New York Times, September, 1970
Leslie Crawford
Millett's classic woke me up, changed my perception of women and myself, as it did for tens of thousands of American women when it first appeared.
Pittsburgh Press
A well documented intellectual masterpiece.
Time
[Millett] translates the war of the sexes from the language of nineteenth century bedroom farce into the raw images of guerilla warfare.... Even more than a political system, our sexual order is a 'habit of mind and a way of life.' Millett's book may go far toward subverting it.
New Yorker
A passionate book by an acute literary analyst.
Washington Post Book World
A richly informative book.
Katie Ryder
Sexual Politics dissected the beliefs, the cultural language, that supported sexual hierarchy. Millett's arguments cut through contemporary culture almost as surely as they did when written. In fact, it seems looking back to this old radicalism would help today's feminists to move forward.
New York Times
Supremely entertaining to read, brilliantly conceived, overwhelming in its arguments, breathtaking in its command of history and literature.
Time
[Millett] translates the war of the sexes from the language of nineteenth century bedroom farce into the raw images of guerilla warfare.... Even more than a political system, our sexual order is a 'habit of mind and a way of life.' Millett's book may go far toward subverting it.
New Yorker
A passionate book by an acute literary analyst.
