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THANKS SALUTE TO APPLE.INC Prime Women in Second-wave Feminism 夏煜祺18 徐君兰19 许倩倩32 汤锐35 Kate Millett CONTENTS Introduction of Kate Millett Feminism Sexual Politics Sexism and sexuality . 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（圣希尔达学院）. She has been described as “a seminal influence on second-wave feminism”（对第二次女性浪潮有开创性影响）, and is best known for her 1970 book Sexual Politics. Millett is acknowledged as a leader of the modern women‘s movement,?or?second-wave feminism, of the 1960s and 1970s. She is known for her book?Sexual Politics,?considered the movement’s manifesto(宣告). Introduction of Kate Millett Feminism In 1966, Millett became a committee member of?National Organization for Women?and subsequently joined the?New York Radical(激进)Women, Radicalesbians（女同志群）, and?Downtown Radical Women?organizations. She became a spokesperson for the feminism movement following the success of the book?Sexual Politics,?but struggled with conflicting perceptions of her as arrogant and elitist, and the expectations of others to speak for them, which she covered in her 1974 book,?Flying. She required working women not to wear veils, and to allow women to divorce their husbands in Iran. She also wrote about the experience in?Going to Iran. Sexual Politics Sexual Politics?originated as Milletts PhD dissertation and was published in 1970, the same year that she was awarded her doctorate from?Columbia University. The?bestselling book,?a critique of?patriarchy?in Western society and literature, addressed the?sexism?and?heterosexism?of the modern novelists?D. H. Lawrence,?Henry Miller, and?Norman Mailer?and contrasted their perspectives with the dissenting viewpoint of the homosexual author?Jean Genet. Millett questioned the origins of patriarchy, argued that sex