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7 de set. de 2017 · PARIS (AP) — Kate Millett, the activist, artist and educator whose best-selling work “Sexual Politics” was a landmark of cultural criticism and a manifesto for the modern feminist movement, has died at 82. Millett’s book was among the most talked-about works of its time and remains a founding text for cultural and gender studies programs.
Kate Millett es conocida por ser una de las líderes del feminismo radical en Estados Unidos. El feminismo radical se enfoca en la lucha contra la opresión de los hombres hacia las mujeres, y busca transformar la estructura social y política que produce esta opresión. En sus escritos, Millett argumenta que la subordinación de las mujeres no ...
Sexual Politics is the debut book by American writer and activist Kate Millett, based on her PhD dissertation at Columbia University. [1] [2] It was published in 1970 by Doubleday. It is regarded as a classic of feminism and one of radical feminism 's key texts, a formative piece in shaping the intentions of the second-wave feminist movement.
Leben. Kate Millett wuchs mit zwei Schwestern in St. Paul, Minnesota auf. Ihre Eltern waren katholische Irischamerikaner.Ihre Mutter, Helen Millett, arbeitete als Lehrerin und engagierte sich in der Bürgerrechtsbewegung, trat für die Rechte von Homosexuellen ein und ging gegen den Vietnamkrieg auf die Straße.
Kate Millett. ( 8 ) R$20,83. 'A wrenching and intimate autobiography, "Sita" is an unsparing, moment-by-moment record of the fading of love, with all of its agony and false-dawn respites. For the first time, the original text of "Sita" is accompanied by the first of Millett's moving prose elegies, written after Sita committed suicide.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Millett taught at Waseda University, Bryn Mawr College, Barnard College, and the University of California, Berkeley. Some of her later written works are The Politics of Cruelty (1994), about state-sanctioned torture in many countries, and Mother Millett (2001), a book about her relationship with her mother.
Kate Millett. Although best known for writing Sexual Politics (1970), a canonical text of second-wave feminism that outlined the patriarchal institutions governing daily life through a close reading of 20th-century literature, Kate Millett (b. 1934 in St. Paul, MN; d. 2017 in Paris) described herself first and foremost as a sculptor.
