Kate Millett grew up sensing that she was a disappointment. The middle daughter of three, she once recalled the look on her father’s face when her younger sister was born — it expressed his view that his female children constituted ‘three errors in a row’.
It was not, however, her father’s prejudice that awakened her feminist sensibilities. The experience that converted her to the cause of radical feminism was listening to a series of lectures in New York during the winter of 1964–65. The lecture series asked: ‘Are Women Emancipated?’ Millett became convinced both that they were not and that this was a situation she should seek to change.
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