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...KATE MILLETT...
Back in 1967 a shy young artist named Kate Millett had her first one-woman New York show. LIFE magazine ran photographs of her most striking sculptures: two-legged piano stools in boots (with socks painted to order), selling for $40 apiece. It was the kind of publicity that artists starve for. Now, in a passionately unhappy book, the same Kate Millett feels compelled to write: "As the subject of controversy I suddenly acquired significance for others just as I ceased to hold any for myself . . . no longer mine, my life grew loathsome...
...referring to the celebrity of those piano stools, though, but to the brouhaha that followed the publication, in 1970, of her feminist doctoral thesis, Sexual Politics. Millett studied literature at Minnesota and Oxford and taught at Columbia. She had always been primarily an academic, as the book showed by combining turgid prose with a tendency to uncharitable generalization. But the burgeoning women's liberation movement needed a source book, and the press needed a symbol. In a matter of weeks, Kate Millett saw herself metamorphosed from "unknown sculptor to media...
...Very Fashionable." When Kate Millett, author of the bestselling Sexual Politics, acknowledged to a meeting of feminists and Gay Liberationists in 1970 that although married, she also enjoyed lesbian relationships, the news caused a sensation both within and without the women's movement. Millett's latest book, Flying, to be published in June, will tell all about her bisex life to an audience not so shockable. They have by now seen movies like Sunday, Bloody Sunday, in which a male lover is shared by Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch. They have read books like the bestseller. Portrait...
...wide range of territory that will let us talk about the Pill one week and, who knows, love poetry the next." One sign of how topical the subject has become is the number of cover stories and other major articles that have already run in TIME. Kate Millett appeared on the cover in 1970 as a symbol of the feminist revolution. Last March we devoted an entire special issue to The American Woman. We have also had cover stories on the plight of the homosexual in America, on sex and the teenager, Sex Researchers Masters and Johnson...