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-	{{template}}	+	{{template}}'''Kate Millett''' (born [[September 14]], [[1934]] in [[St. Paul, Minnesota]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[feminism|feminist]] writer and activist. She is best known for her [[1970]] book ''[[Sexual Politics]]''. This work offers a comprehensive critique of [[patriarchy]] in Western society and literature. In particular, Millett attacked what she sees as the sexism and heterosexism of the modern novelists [[D. H. Lawrence]], [[Henry Miller]], and [[Norman Mailer]], contrasting their perspectives with the dissenting viewpoint of the homosexual author [[Jean Genet]].
-	:"Sontag's cool exile was a disaster for the [[American women's movement]]. Only a woman of her prestige could have performed the necessary critique and debunking of the first instant-canon feminist screeds, such as those of [[Kate Millett]] or [[Sandra Gilbert]] and [[Susan Gubar]], whose middlebrow mediocrity crippled women's studies from the start. No patriarchal villains held Sontag back; her failures are her own."--"[[Sontag, Bloody Sontag]]," [[Camille Paglia]]	+
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Kate Millett (born September 14, 1934 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is an American feminist writer and activist. She is best known for her 1970 book Sexual Politics. This work offers a comprehensive critique of patriarchy in Western society and literature. In particular, Millett attacked what she sees as the sexism and heterosexism of the modern novelists D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer, contrasting their perspectives with the dissenting viewpoint of the homosexual author Jean Genet.