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The Basement : Meditations on a Human Sacrifice : with a New Introduction by Kate Millett is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Millett's semi-fictional book about the 1965 torture and murder of American teenager Sylvia Likens by Gertrude Baniszewski, drew controversy for her (Millet's) defense of the crime. Millett argued for a feminist interpretation of the crime: [The murder of Sylvia Likens] is the story of the suppression of women. Gertrude seems to have wanted to administer some terrible truthful justice to this girl: that this was what it was to be a woman. More generally, humanities scholar Camille Paglia has described Millet's scholarship as deeply flawed, declaring that American feminism’s nose dive began when Millet achieved prominence.

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Author

Kate Millett

Publisher

Simon & Schuster; Touchstone; Brand: Touchstone

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780671723583

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Social Sciences, Social_sciences

Rating

3.58 / 5 (122 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14