Kate Millett
American feminist writer and artist whose Sexual Politics (1970) attacked Mailer (with Henry Miller and D. H. Lawrence) as exemplars of literary patriarchy, prompting Mailer's book-length reply, The Prisoner of Sex (1971).
Kate Millett was an American feminist writer and artist. Her Sexual Politics (1970) — a landmark of second-wave feminist criticism — read Henry Miller, D. H. Lawrence, and Mailer as avatars of a literary “sexual politics” of male dominance. Mailer answered her at length in The Prisoner of Sex (1971) and sparred with her circle at the April 1971 Town Hall “Dialogue on Women’s Liberation.”