It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

dissertation and was publiKate Millettd in 1970 the same year that Kate Millett was awarded her doctorate from Columbia University. Millett questioned the origins of patriarchy argued that sex-based oppression was both political and cultural and posited that undoing the traditional family was the key to true sexual revolution. A seminal influence on second-wave feminism Millett is best known for her 1970 book Sexual Politics.

A seminal influence on second-wave feminism Millett is best known for her 1970 book Sexual Politics.