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Katherine Murray "Kate" 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. She has been described as "a seminal influence on second-wave feminism", and is best known for her 1970 book ''Sexual Politics''," which was her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University. Journalist Liza Featherstone attributes previously unimaginable "legal abortion, greater professional equality between the sexes and a sexual freedom" being made possible partially due to Millett's efforts.〔 The feminist, human rights, peace, civil rights, and anti-psychiatry movements have been some of Millett's key causes. Her books were motivated by her activism, such as woman's rights and mental health reform, and several were autobiographical memoirs that explored her sexuality, mental health, and relationships. ''Mother Millett'' and ''The Loony Bin Trip'', for instance, dealt with family issues and the times when she was involuntarily committed to a nursing home. Besides appearing in a number of documentaries, she produced ''Three Lives'' and wrote ''Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography''. In the 1960s and 1970s, Millett taught at Waseda University, Bryn Mawr College, Barnard College, and University of California, Berkeley. Millett was raised in Minnesota and has spent most of her adult life in Manhattan and the Woman's Art Colony, which became the Millett Center for the Arts in 2012, that she established in Poughkeepsie, New York. Self-identified as bisexual, Millett was married to sculptor Fumio Yoshimura from 1965 to 1985 and had relationships with women, one of whom was the inspiration for her book ''Sita''. She has continued to work as an activist, writer and artist. Some of her later written works are ''The Politics of Cruelty'' (1994), about state-sanctioned torture in many countries, and a book about the relationship with her mother in ''Mother Millett'' (2001). Between 2011 and 2013 she has won the Lambda Pioneer Award for Literature, received Yoko Ono's Courage Award for the Arts, and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. ==Early life and education== Katherine Murray Millett was born on September 14, 1934 to James Albert and Helen Feely Millett in Saint Paul, Minnesota. According to Millett she was afraid of her father, an engineer, who beat her. He was an alcoholic who abandoned the family when she was 14, "consigning them to a life of genteel poverty." Her mother was a teacher〔 and insurance saleswoman. She has two sisters, Sally and Mallory; the latter was one of the subjects of ''Three Lives''.〔〔 Of Irish Catholic heritage,〔 Kate Millett attended parochial schools in Saint Paul throughout her childhood.〔〔 Millett graduated in 1956 magna cum laude from University of Minnesota with a BA degree〔〔 in English literature; she was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. A wealthy aunt paid for her education at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she majored in English literature and obtained a first-class degree, with honors, in 1958.〔〔 She was the first American woman to be awarded a postgraduate degree with first-class honors by St. Hilda's.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Dr. Kate Millett )〕 After spending about 10 years as an educator and artist, Millett entered the graduate school program for English and comparative literature at Columbia University in 1968, during which she taught English at Barnard.〔〔 While there, she championed student rights, women's liberation, and abortion reform.〔 She completed her dissertation in September 1969 and was awarded her doctorate, with distinction, in March 1970.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kate Millett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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