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Lila Karp

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Lila Karp
Born1933 (1933)
DiedSeptember 15, 2008(2008-09-15) (aged 74–75)
NationalityAmerican
EducationAntioch University
Occupations
  • Author
  • teacher
  • activist
  • psychoterapist
Notable workThe Queen Is in the Garbage (1969)

Lila Karp (1933 – September 15, 2008) was an American feminist author, teacher, activist, and psychotherapist. She is best known for her 1969 novel The Queen Is in the Garbage,[1] and is profiled in the book Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975.[1] Karp spent a decade living in London, where she wrote The Queen Is in the Garbage, before moving to New York City in the late 1960s.[2] She was among the second-wave feminists in New York in the 1960s and was a member of The Feminists. This group included such notables as Kate Millett, Flo Kennedy, Ti-Grace Atkinson, and Margo Jefferson. Karp was featured in the 1977 documentary Some American Feminists.[2]

Karp played a vital role in pioneering the field of Women's Studies at Princeton University, where she served as the director of the University Women's Center. She delivered a paper on the subject entitled "Women's Studies: Fear and Loathing in the Ivy League" at the National Women's Studies Association Meeting in 1979. She was appointed the co-director of The Institute for the Study of Women and Men at the University of Southern California in 1991.

References

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  1. ^ Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-197 at Amazon.
  2. ^ "In Memory of Lila Karp, 1933-2008". Veteran Feminists of America. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
  • Karp, Lila. The Queen is in the Garbage. Feminist Press at CUNY, 2007. ISBN 1558615385
  • Love, Barbara J. Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975. University of Illinois Press, 2006. ISBN 025203189X
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