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Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended the University of Oxford and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors after studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Kate Millett was an American feminist, author, and artist. She was an early and influential figure in the women’s liberation movement, whose first book, Sexual Politics, began her exploration of the dynamics of power in relation to gender and sexuality.
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Sep 6, 2017 · Kate Millett’s first and most famous book, “Sexual Politics” (1970), is credited with inciting a Copernican revolution in the understanding of gender roles, but it began life somewhat...
Sep 13, 2017 · The writer, artist, and activist Kate Millett died on Wednesday, September 6th, in Paris. She would have turned eighty-three this week. Millett is best known for the 1970 book “ Sexual Politics...
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Sexual Politics is the debut book by American writer and activist Kate Millett, based on her PhD dissertation at Columbia University. [1] [2] It was published in 1970 by Doubleday. It is regarded as a classic of feminism and one of radical feminism 's key texts, a formative piece in shaping the intentions of the second-wave feminist movement.
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Sep 7, 2017 · Learn about the life and legacy of Kate Millett, who wrote the influential book Sexual Politics and became a leader of the second-wave feminist movement. She also founded a women's art colony, supported Iranian activists and received the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award.
Sep 7, 2017 · PARIS (AP) — Kate Millett, the activist, artist and educator whose best-selling work “Sexual Politics” was a landmark of cultural criticism and a manifesto for the modern feminist movement, has died at 82.
