Kate Millett, the wayward artist, thinker and activist whose 1970 book Sexual Politics became a keystone of second-wave feminism, has died at the age of 82. Wherever we meet, however many times a year – let it always be an affair,” Millett wrote in Sita, her 1976 account of an earlier lesbian relationship, which, like subsequent autobiographical works, became an exploration of forms of love. The cultural critic Elaine Showalter said: “A revolution needs leaders, and with Sexual Politics Kate Millett came forward to give the Women’s Liberation Movement a national voice and a strong connection to higher education. Kate Millett's return to the personal political Read moreShe was working as a sculptor when Sexual Politics, based on her doctorate at Columbia, was published. Andrea Dworkin later wrote: “I cannot think of anyone who accomplished what Kate Millett did, with this one book.

Source: The Guardian September 07, 2017 11:21 UTC