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Kate Millett

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Born: September 13 1934

Died: 0505 09 20172017

Katherine Murray "Kate" Millett was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a postgraduate degree with first-class honors by St. Hilda's. She has been described as "a seminal influence on second-wave feminism", and is best known for her 1970 book Sexual Politics," which was her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University. Journalist Liza Featherstone attributes previously unimaginable "legal abortion, greater professional equality between the sexes and a sexual freedom" being made possible partially due to Millett's efforts.

The feminist, human rights, peace, civil rights, and anti-psychiatry movements have been some of Millett's key causes. Her books were motivated by her activism, such as woman's rights and mental health reform, and several were autobiographical memoirs that explored her sexuality, mental health, and relationships. Mother Millett and The Loony Bin Trip, for instance, dealt with family issues and the times when she was involuntarily committed. Besides appearing in a number of documentaries, she produced Three Lives and wrote Not a Love Story: A Film about Pornography. In the 1960s and 1970s, Millett taught at Waseda University, Bryn Mawr College, Barnard College, and University of California, Berkeley.

Millett was raised in Minnesota and has spent most of her adult life in Manhattan and the Woman's Art Colony, which became the Millett Center for the Arts in 2012, that she established in Poughkeepsie, New York. Self-identified as bisexual, Millett was married to sculptor Fumio Yoshimura from 1965 to 1985 and had relationships with women, one of whom was the inspiration for her book Sita. She has continued to work as an activist, writer, and artist. Some of her later written works are The Politics of Cruelty , about state-sanctioned torture in many countries, and a book about the relationship with her mother in Mother Millett . Between 2011 and 2013 she has won the Lambda Pioneer Award for Literature, received Yoko Ono's Courage Award for the Arts, and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

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Kate Millett

Kate Millett

Books from Kate Millett

Sexual Politics

The Loony-Bin Trip

Sita

The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice: With a New Introduction

The Spiritual Gift of Madness: The Failure of Psychiatry and the Rise of the Mad Pride Movement

The Politics of Cruelty: An Essay on the Literature of Political Imprisonment

The Prostitution Papers: A Quartet For Female Voice

Aphrodisiac: Fiction from Christopher Street

Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holder's Letters From Mexico

A.D: A Memoir

Mother Millett

Mulheres contra Homens?

Elegía para Sita

Fliegen – Flying: Erster Band

ANAIS: An International Journal Anthology

Flying

Cinsel Politika

Flying

Fliegen – Flying: Zweiter Band

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