MPR’s Terri Keefe reports on a speech by feminist author Kate Millett at the University of Minnesota about Millet talks about the rules of sexuality in classical literature, Oedipus and Medea, and about erotic literature.

Report includes excerpt from Millett’s speech, in which she talks about Victorian assumptions about sex and manners, and that repressive sexual customs laid groundwork for political explosion reflected in labor reform movement and unrest about exploitation of women in mines and mills.

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