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"The Enemy of Feminism"

topic posted Mon, August 2, 2004 - 2:06 PM by  Gerald
What do y'all think about feminist critiques of Henry Miller? I just read one that deemed him the "enemy of feminism"!
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  • Gi Gi
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    Re: "The Enemy of Feminism"

    Sun, September 12, 2004 - 10:57 AM
    Mmm as a Feminist & a Henry Miller fan I think He was Feminism.
    He was proactive, be involved, do what you have to do & make it Art. How many teenagers found out about SEX reading a smuggled copy of Tropic of Cancer? My intro to Miller was from the goody girl that had marked the pages to read. I didn't get those but that Here was Writing about Freedom.
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      Re: "The Enemy of Feminism"

      Sun, September 12, 2004 - 7:32 PM
      Hear Hear Gi Gi!
      I concur, as a man who supports feminism as well!
      I saw in Gregory Boyd's Textbook collection of 20th century essayists, he described Anais Nin as the mother of modern erotic femininsm.
      I wonder what she would have said about"The Enemy of Feminism"?
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      • Gi Gi
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        Re: "The Enemy of Feminism"

        Mon, September 13, 2004 - 10:22 AM
        Anectdotal Brag: In the '70's I was working for an attorney who helped publish a Miller book & invited me to his publishing party for him. I was SOOO excited. Being all about the 'revolution' then I was wearing 5" cork platform shoes that made me 6'1", early punked spiked hair ala Todd Rungren, & a sheer white silk blouse that tied behind my neck in scarves trailing to my but in low riding tight belled levis. So I get to meet Henry Miller towering over him shaking - He looks me up & down &up & says -"Nice!" One word so richly voiced I can still hear his deep resonation. There isn't a Feminist that would not have Quivered....
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    Re: "The Enemy of Feminism"

    Thu, December 30, 2004 - 8:46 AM
    Mailer quotes from and writes extensively on several of Miller's major feminist critics in _The Prisoner of Sex_. He, of course, found the accusations of Miller "promoting violence" to be ridiculous.


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    • Gerald
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      Re: "The Enemy of Feminism"

      Tue, January 18, 2005 - 12:46 PM
      Of course, this subject belies the obvious "well, wait, what the hell is feminism" question, but all that aside...

      Erica Jong wrote a fantastic book on this subject called "The Devil At Large". Her "Fear of Flying" has been called the female version of Tropic, so it's an interesting perspective.
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