Kate Millett

Kate Millett (1934–2017) was an American feminist writer, artist, and activist whose book Sexual Politics became a landmark of second-wave feminism.

Shulamith Firestone: Shulamith Firestone was a Canadian-American feminist theorist and author of The Dialectic of Sex. Her radical analysis of sex and power appeared alongside Millett’s influential account.
Sexual Politics: Kate Millett’s 1970 book argues that relations between the sexes are structured by political power. This is Millett’s defining work and the source of her lasting influence.
Literary criticism: Literary criticism is the interpretation and evaluation of literary works. Millett reads novels as evidence of how culture represents gender and power.
Sexual Politics (book): Sexual Politics is Kate Millett’s 1970 study of gender, power, and representations of sexuality in literature. Its critical readings made Millett’s analysis concrete and publicly controversial.
Germaine Greer: Germaine Greer is an Australian writer whose 1970 book The Female Eunuch became a landmark of feminist literature. Her widely read book made a parallel challenge to sexual and social conventions.
Patriarchy: Patriarchy is a social system in which men hold disproportionate power in families and institutions. Millett uses this framework to interpret gender relations as a structure of domination.
Radical feminism: Radical feminism analyzes gender inequality as rooted in male dominance and seeks fundamental social change. Millett’s account of patriarchy became a prominent expression of this feminist tradition.
The Feminine Mystique: The Feminine Mystique is Betty Friedan’s 1963 critique of the restrictive ideal of domestic fulfillment for women. Its earlier success helped prepare a mass audience for Millett’s more structural critique.
Betty Friedan: Betty Friedan was an American feminist writer and organizer who helped found the National Organization for Women. Her earlier feminist organizing helped establish the movement in which Millett intervened.
Gender role: A gender role is a set of social expectations associated with a person's perceived gender. Millett examines how literature presents and reinforces prescribed roles for women and men.

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