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Kate Millett (born 1934) is an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She was the first American woman to be awarded a postgraduate degree with first-class honors by St. Hilda's College. She is best known for her 1970 book Sexual Politics, which was her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University. The feminist, human rights, peace, civil rights, and anti-psychiatry movements have been some of Millett's key causes. Her books were motivated by her activism, and several were autobiographical memoirs that explored her sexuality, mental health, and relationships. Besides appearing in documentaries, she produced Three Lives and wrote Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography. In the 1960s and 1970s, Millett taught at Waseda University, Bryn Mawr College, Barnard College, and University of California, Berkeley. Self-identified as bisexual, Millett was married to sculptor Fumio Yoshimura from 1965 to 1985 and had relationships with women, one of whom was the inspiration for her book Sita. 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. (Full article...)