美国女权主义活动家凯特·米勒特是20世纪后半叶女权主义运动主要理论家之一,因《性政治》一举成为名作家、全美妇女运动的领袖人物。20世纪70年代的评论界认为该书是“这个十年中在全国范围内激起男性愤怒的最早的女权主义书籍之一”[1]15。女权主义者、保守主义者和流行出版界公认米勒特的《性政治》激发了女权主义的第二次浪潮,称其为“新女权主义的卡尔·马克思”和“妇 American feminist activist Kate Millet was one of the major theorists of the feminist movement in the second half of the 20th century, as ”sex politics“ became the chief writer and the leader of the National Women’s Movement in one fell swoop. The 1970s critics consider the book to be ”one of the earliest feminist books that aroused male anger nationwide in a decade“ [1] 15. Feminists, conservatives and pop publishers recognized Millet’s ”sexual politics“ as inspiring the second wave of feminism as ”the new feminist Karl Marx“ and ”