Flying
by Kate Millett
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Traces the author's strict Irish-Catholic upbringing in St Paul, Minnesota, and the shock of early sexual feelings and events. This book recounts the guilt of her first love for another woman and the joy of her relationship with her husband, the Japanese sculptor Fumio Yoshimura.Tags
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»Flying«, neben »Sita« Kate Milletts persönlichstes Buch, ist eine sehr genaue Beschreibung der ersten Jahre der Frauenbewegung und zugleich ein Stück Autobiographie einer ihrer aktivsten führenden Figuren. Kate Millett erinnert sich an ihre Kindheit, ihre Reisen, an ihre Ehe mit dem japanischen Bildhauer Fumio Yoshimura, ihre Schwierigkeiten, eine Identität zu finden als Künstlerin, zu entscheiden zwischen ihren Talenten als Bildhauerin, Schriftstellerin, Filmemacherin. Sie schildert ihren Weg in der Frauenbewegung, ihre Vereinnahmung nach dem internationalen Erfolg von »Sexus und Herrschaft« und die Schmähung nach ihrem öffentlichen Bekenntnis zur Homosexualität. Ihr leidenschaftliches Plädoyer gegen Monogamie, gegen show more einseitig festgelegte Geschlechterbeziehung kam für die Mehrheit der Frauen zu früh; sie fürchteten Diskriminierung von außen und Spaltung innerhalb der Bewegung. (Amazon) show less
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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
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title*
- Fliegen
- Original title
- Flying
- Original publication date
- 1974
- People/Characters
- Kate Millett; Fumio Yoshimura
- Dedication
- For Mother/ And for Zell Ingram
- First words
- A cab to Victoria and then the bus, red and ominous as a city sandwich even though it's for the airport.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Chaos and serenity together.
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 301.4120924
- Canonical LCC
- HQ1413.M54
- Disambiguation notice
- ISBN 1559111674 is for Flying by Joy Cowley, not Kate Millett. Ms. Millett is an author of a book with the same title.
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- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 301.4120924 — Social sciences Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology Formerly: Social structure
- LCC
- HQ1413 .M54 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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- 236
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- English, German, Italian, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 8
