Mediating a Movement, Authorizing Discourse: Kate Millett, Sexual Politics, and Feminism's Second Wave

abstract

• Mass media's relationship with feminism has long been of interest to feminist rhetorical scholars. In this essay, I examine the media's relationship with the second wave of feminism in terms of the outing of Kate Millett and the popular reception of her book, Sexual Politics. Rather than separating the movement's reception of Millett and the popular media reception, I explore how both intersected and culminated in disciplinary processes of authority and authorization. 2004 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

authors

• Poirot, Kristan

published proceedings

• Women's Studies in Communication

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Poirot, K.

citation count

• 13

complete list of authors

• Poirot, Kristan

publication date

• January 2004

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• Women's Studies in Communication  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/07491409.2004.10162473

start page

• 204

end page

• 235

volume

• 27

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2004.10162473