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 PotterProfessor, Department of PhilosophyAssociate with the Department of Psychiatry andBehavioral SciencesCore Faculty, Interdisciplinary Masters in Bioethicsand Medical HumanitiesUniversity of Louisville 40292Sent from my iPhone
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)
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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