Kate Millett, 1973

Kate Millett (1934–2017)

Author of Sexual Politics: A Surprising Examination of Society's Most Arbitrary Folly

Includes the names: Kate Millet, Kate Millet, Kate Millett, Kate MIillett

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Katherine Murray Millett was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 14, 1934. She graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1956. After teaching briefly at the University of North Carolina, she pursued her art career in Japan and then New York, where she took a job at Barnard College teaching English literature. She received a PhD from Columbia University. Her doctoral dissertation, Sexual Politics, was published in 1970. Her other books include Flying, Sita, Going to Iran, The Loony-Bin Trip, and Mother Millett. She died from cardiac arrest on September 6, 2017 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Sexual Politics: A Surprising Examination of Society's Most Arbitrary Folly… (more)

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Works by Kate Millett

Sexual Politics: A Surprising Examination of Society's Most Arbitrary… 1,091 copies, 14 reviews

Sita 237 copies

Flying 207 copies

The Loony-Bin Trip 204 copies, 5 reviews

The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice 99 copies, 1 review

The Politics of Cruelty: An Essay on the Literature of Political… 73 copies, 1 review

The Prostitution Papers: A Quartet for Female Voice 69 copies, 2 reviews

A.D. A Memoir 35 copies

Going to Iran 22 copies

Mother Millett 20 copies

Kate Millett, Sculptor: The First 38 Years 7 copies

An Elegy for Sita 4 copies

Sokak kadınları 2 copies

Política Sexual Livro 1 1 copy

Caterpillars: Journal Entries by 11 Women (Introduction) 1 copy

Beyond Politics? Children and Sexuality 1 copy

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Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's… (Contributor) 559 copies, 3 reviews

The Norton Book of Women's Lives (Contributor) 399 copies, 1 review

The Portable Sixties Reader (Contributor) 311 copies, 3 reviews

I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (Contributor) 172 copies, 2 reviews

Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (Contributor) 126 copies, 1 review

Aphrodisiac, fiction from Christopher Street (Contributor) 125 copies

Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by… (Contributor) 118 copies, 3 reviews

Women on Women 3: A New Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction (Contributor) 99 copies, 2 reviews

A Virago Keepsake to Celebrate Twenty Years of Publishing (Contributor) 45 copies

Courage Is Contagious and Other Reasons to Be Grateful for Michelle Obama (Contributor) 36 copies, 1 review

Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holder's Letters from Mexico (Introduction, some editions) 24 copies

Headcase: LGBTQ Writers & Artists on Mental Health and Wellness (Contributor) 14 copies

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Canonical name

Millett, Kate

Legal name

Millett, Katherine Murray

Other names

Date of birth

1934-09-14

Date of death

2017-09-06

Burial location

Gender

female

Nationality

USA

Country (for map)

Birthplace

St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

Place of death

Paris, Île-de-France, France

Cause of death

cardiac arrest

Places of residence

St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

Japan

La Grange, New York, USA

California, USA

New York, New York, USA

Education

Columbia University (Ph.D | 1970)

Oxford University (BA | 1958 | St Hilda's College)

University of Minnesota (BA | 1956)

Occupations

Relationships

Yoshimura, Fumio (husband | divorced)

Keir, Sophie (widow)

Agents

Organizations

Kappa Alpha Theta

National Organization for Women

MindFreedom International

Awards and honors

Pioneer Award, Lamba Literary Foundation (2012)

National Women's Hall of Fame (2013)

Short biography

Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017), better known as 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 degree with first-class honors after studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has been described as "a seminal influence on second-wave feminism", and is best known for her book Sexual Politics (1970).

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