Thank you for letting us know about this, Diana. She was certainly among
the thinkers who inspired me.
On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 7:33 PM, Potter,Nancy Lee Nyquist <
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> Thanks Diana, her work was definitely an inspiration to me and I hadn't
> known she'd passed away. What a mover and shaker she was.
>
> Nancy
>
> Nancy Nyquist Potter
> Professor, Department of Philosophy
> Associate with the Department of Psychiatry and
> Behavioral Sciences
> Core Faculty, Interdisciplinary Masters in Bioethics
> and Medical Humanities
> University of Louisville 40292
>
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> On Sep 6, 2017, at 6:44 PM, Meyers, Diana <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dear Friends, this didn’t show up in the NYTimes, but her work gave me
> pause and inspiration. Art Forum recognizes her and her work here:
> OSTED September 6, 2017 Kate Millett (1934–2017)
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> The author, artist, and activist in the women’s liberation movement Kate
> Millett died on Wednesday, September 6 at the age of eighty-two. Her first
> book, *Sexual Politics* (1970), used four male writers—D. H. Lawrence,
> Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet—as case studies in examining
> the subjugation of women throughout cultural and political life.
>
> Born in 1934 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Kate Millett and her two sisters
> were raised by her mother, Helen Millett, a feminist who voted in the first
> election in which women were allowed to vote in the United States. Millet
> was educated at the University of Minnesota, where in 1956 she obtained a
> bachelor’s in English literature, and was later sent by an aunt to Oxford
> University, where in 1958 she earned a master’s in English literature with
> first class honors, the first American woman ever to achieve such
> distinction there. In 1961 she moved to Tokyo, where she taught English at
> the prestigious Waseda University and also studied sculpture. Though she
> married Japanese sculptor Fumio Yoshimura there in 1965, Millett soon moved
> to New York City. In 1970, her Columbia University Ph.D. thesis was
> published as the bestselling book, *Sexual Politics*. Millett went on to
> publish numerous articles, essays, and ten more books.
>
> Her most recent publications are *The Politics of Cruelty: An Essay on
> the Literature of Political Imprisonment* (1994) and *Mother Millett*
> (2001). In 2013, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in
> Seneca Falls, New York, the birthplace of the American Suffragette
> Movement. She served as the director of the Millett Center for the Arts,
> founded in 1978 in the town of LaGrange, New York.
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