ditto on all this--and espec. about its being one of the first "big books."
  I did go back to it (not altogether happily) about pornography. But i
can't underestimate its influence on me. Ann

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 5:40 PM, Barrie Karp <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Thank you, Diana.
>
> That book, big impact at the time, one of our first books, moving away
> from pamphlets, etc. Amazing what big impact that book had on me and the
> world, and phrase "sexual politics" - isn't it funny/strange how current
> and recent public discourse uses it all the time and takes the phrase for
> granted?, yet I never went back to that book, it just was one of the things
> that set me off, even as I had already been set off by many things, and, in
> retrospect, in bits and pieces, for many years. Bowing with deep admiration
> and gratitude.  I remember her at Columbia in the 60s or so.
>
> Barrie
>
> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 8:06 PM, Joan Callahan <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> 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 <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> 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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>>> Professor Emerita of Philosophy
>>> University of Connecticut, Storrs
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