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) >>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.artforum.com_news_id-3D70978&d=DwMF-g&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HUp8-bkYMlNgd3ZJBxWBKsBsFAFGHrEZg21p9gxugJA&m=lMGjhVh_VVq1g76ZLMYPIeNM70PBlX8fNhZSyJ7f-QQ&s=E18Ow4k-F1kPiYkyTQpuuyF722feFwPNOvgGl--Ee0g&e=> >>> >>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.artforum.com_news_id-3D70978&d=DwMF-g&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HUp8-bkYMlNgd3ZJBxWBKsBsFAFGHrEZg21p9gxugJA&m=lMGjhVh_VVq1g76ZLMYPIeNM70PBlX8fNhZSyJ7f-QQ&s=E18Ow4k-F1kPiYkyTQpuuyF722feFwPNOvgGl--Ee0g&e=> >>> >>> 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. 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