Kate Millett facts for kids

Kate Millett
Quick facts for kids Kate Millett
	Kate Millett in 1970
Born	Katherine Murray Millett ; September 14, 1934; St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Died	September 6, 2017 (aged 82); Paris, France
Alma mater	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (BA); St Hilda's College, Oxford (MA); Columbia University (PhD)
Known for	Patriarchy seen as a social phenomenon
Spouse(s)	Fumio Yoshimura (1965–85; divorced); Sophie Keir (?–2017);
	Scientific career
Influences	Simone de Beauvoir

Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors after studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has been described as "an influence on second-wave feminism", and is best known for her book which was based on her doctoral thesis at Columbia University.

The feminist, human rights, peace, civil rights, and anti-psychiatry movements were some of Millett's principal 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 mental health, and relationships.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Millett taught at Waseda University, Bryn Mawr College, Barnard College, and the University of California, Berkeley. Between 2011 and 2013, she 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.

Millett was born and raised in Minnesota, and then spent most of her adult life in Manhattan and the Woman's Art Colony, established in Poughkeepsie, New York, which became the Millett Center for the Arts in 2012. Millet came out as a lesbian in the year her book was published. She was married to a sculptor Fumio Yoshimura (1965 to 1985) and later, until her death in 2017, she was married to Sophie Keir.

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