Kate Millett—the author of Sexual Politics and “a defining architect of second-wave feminism”—died in Paris this week while on vacation with her spouse Sophie Keir.*

“Kate was brilliant, deep, and uncompromising. She wrote about the politics of male dominance, of owning women’s bodies as the means of reproduction, and made readers see this as basic to hierarchies of race and class. She was not just talking about equal pay, but about woman-hatred in the highest places and among the most admired intellectuals.” — Gloria Steinem*

See Maggie Doherty, “What Kate Did,” The New Republic, March 23, 2016:

newrepublic.com/article/131897/kate-millett-sexual-politics

*Parul Sehgal and Neil Genzlinger, “Kate Millett, Whose Sexual Politics Became a Bible of Feminism, Dies at 82,” New York Times, September 8, 2017.

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