Kate Millett
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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
Photograph by Linda Wolf, 1970
University of North Carolina building
Ōkuma Garden, Waseda University
Bryn Mawr College, campus entrance
The Prisoner of Sex
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The Prisoner of Sex is a non-fiction work by American author Norman Mailer, first published in 1971, that responds to the rise of second-wave feminism and specifically critiques the arguments made by
Kate Millett
…theory about the feminist movement. Alice Neel created the depiction of Millett for the August 31, 1970, cover. According to biographer Peter Manso, The Prisoner of Sex was written by Norman Mailer in response to Millett's Sexual Politics. Andrew Wilson, author of Norman Mailer: An American Aesthetic, noted that "The…
Cover of the first edition