Kate Millett

American writer, educator, artist, and activist (1934-2017) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 82

Katherine Murray Millett was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended the University of Oxford and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors after studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford.

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Appearing on UK discussion programme After Dark with Oliver Reed in 1991

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National Women's Hall of Fame2013

Courage Award for the Arts

Lambda Literary Pioneer Award

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She has been described as "a seminal influence on second-wave feminism", and is best known for her book Sexual Politics (1970), which was based on her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University. Journalist Liza Featherstone attributes the attainment of previously unimaginable "legal abortion, greater professional equality between the sexes, and a sexual freedom" in part to Millett's efforts.

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