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She became a spokesperson for the feminism movement following the success of the book Sexual Politics, but struggled with conflicting perceptions of her as arrogant and elitist, and the expectations of others to speak for them, which she covered in her 1974 book, Flying.
Prime Women in Second-wave Feminism
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Kate Millett
CONTENTS
Introduction of Kate Millett Feminism
Sexual Politics
Sexism and sexuality
Introduction of Kate Millett
Millett (born September 14, 1934) is an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a postgraduate degree with first-class honors by St. Hilda‘s（圣希尔达学院）. She has been described as “a seminal influence on second-wave feminism”（对第二次女性浪潮有开创性影响）, and is best known for her 1970 book Sexual Politics. Millett is acknowledged as a leader of the modern women‘s movement, or second-wave feminism, of the 1960s and 1970s. She is known for her book Sexual Politics, considered the movement’s manifesto(宣告).
She required working women not to wear veils, and to allow women to divorce their husbands in Iran. She also wrote about the experience in Going to Iran.
Reviews
It would be difficult to overstate the historical importance of Kate Millett's book today. In 1970, her pioneering analysis of mysogyny in American literature was a radical break from tradition and a risky move for a young scholar. In addition to helping to inaugurate a new school of literary criticism, feminist analysis, this book was highly influential among a certain segment of the women's movement of the 1970's. It is a must read for anyone seeking to understand that movement or the origins of feminist literary criticism. This book is written in a very interesting way. Millet basically critiques different pieces of literature for their subliminal (and sometimes overt) sexist comments and connotations. The passages she writes about are very graphic and interesting; however, it is her analysis that is truly fascinating. It's a great read for feminists and non-feminists alike. The book is incredibly interesting and captivating according to everyone that I know has read it. This is a classic feminist text, and I'm glad it's finally back it print. Although written twenty years ago, it is still incredibly relevant today. Some of the statistics she sites may be different now, but, alas, little else is. This book examines the societal values, constructs, and philospohies that oppress women, and how these values are both reflected in and reinforced by works of literature. It was her doctoral dissertation, so it is scholarly and academic, but it is still a fascinating book. This could be considered the book that started the second wave of feminism, and it is still just as important for today's feminists as it was then.
Sexual Politics
Sexual Politics originated as Millett's PhD dissertation and was published in 1970, the same year that she was awarded her doctorate from Columbia University. The bestselling book, a critique of patriarchy in Western society and literature, addressed the sexism and heterosexism of the modern novelists D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer and contrasted their perspectives with the dissenting viewpoint of the homosexual author Jean Genet. Millett questioned the origins of patriarchy, argued that sex-based oppression was both political and cultural, and posited that undoing the traditional family was the key to true sexual revolution. In its first year on the market, the book sold 80,000 copies and went through seven printings. Considered a symbol of the women's liberation movement, Millett was featured in a Time cover story, "The Politics of Sex", which called Sexual Politics a "remarkable book" that provided a coherent theory about the feminist movement.
Sexism and sexuality
While speaking about sexual liberation at Columbia University, a woman in the audience asked Millett, "Why don't you say you're a lesbian, here, openly. You've said you were a lesbian in the past." Millett hesitantly responded, "Yes, I am a lesbian". A couple of weeks later, Time's December 8, 1970 article "Women's Lib: A Second Look" reported that Millett admitted she was bisexual, which it said would likely discredit her as a spokesperson for the feminist movement because it "reinforce the views of those skeptics who routinely dismiss all liberationists as lesbians.“ In response, two days later a press conference was organized by feminists Ivy Bottini and Barbara Love in Greenwich Village in which they spoke of their "solidarity with the struggle of homosexuals to attain their liberation in a sexist ADD society" to TEXT YOUR Add your text here Kate Millett and other attendees.
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Feminism
In 1966, Millett became a committee member of National Organization for Women and subsequently joined the New York Radical(激 进)Women, Radicalesbians （女同志群）, and Downtown Radical Women organizations.
Sexual Politics has been seen as a classic femini st text, said to be "the first book of academic feminist literary criticism", and "one of the first feminist books of this decade to raise nationwide male ire"