Kate Millett, Sexual Politics

Kate Millett is an American feminist activist and writer. She is best known for her 1970 book titled “Sexual Politics”.

In 1956 Kate Millett received her B.A from the University of Minnesota where she was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She obtained a first-class degree with honors from St Hilda’s College in Oxford, England in 1958.

Ms. Millett was active in feminist politics in the late 1960’s through the 1970’s. She became a committee member of the National Organization for Women in 1966.

An extremely controversial and important theoretical touchstone for the second feminism wave of the 1970’s was Sexual Politics. Kate Millett criticized patriarchy in Western society and literature. In particular she critiqued the sexism and heterosexism of modern novelists D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller and Norman Mailer.

In 1971 Ms. Millett began purchasing and restoring buildings and fields near Poughkeepsie, New York. This project became the Women’s Art Colony/Tree Farm, a community of female writers and artist supported by the sale of Kate Millet’s silk-screen prints and the selling of Christmas trees hand-sheered by the artists in residence.


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Kate Millett, Art Poster by TIME Magazine, size 11" x 14"