Sita
by Kate Millett
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Presents moment-by-moment record of the fading of love, with all of its agony and false-dawn respites. This book follows the disintegration of the author's love affair with a woman who is ten years her senior, a veteran of several marriages, and the mother of grown children.Tags
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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 show more 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) show less
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- Original title
- Sita
- Original publication date
- 1976
- Dedication
- For Herself
- First words
- I fall back on the bed.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Sita.
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 301.4120924; 813.54
- Canonical LCC
- HQ75.4.M54
Classifications
- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, LGBTQ+
- DDC/MDS
- 301.4120924 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology Formerly: Social structure
- LCC
- HQ75.4 .M54 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Sexual life Homosexuality. Lesbianism
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- 255
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- (3.59)
- Languages
- 6 — English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 18
- ASINs
- 4
