Intimate Politics Generator Kate Millett Dies At 82

"She was a European-style intellectual: Cosmopolitan, literate, well traveled, multi-talented, ceremonial," Kate Millett's friend Phyllis Chesler aforementioned of the libber writer, seen in 2006

Feminist author Kate Millett, writer of "Sexual Politics," has died at the years of 82, a last supporter said Fri.

Millett died of internal organ halt in Paris, where she was on holiday with her wife, Canadian photojournalist Sophie Keir, aforesaid Phyllis Chesler, a author and Quaker of the distich.

Millett "died in a city she loved," aforementioned Chesler, herself a far-famed human body in the Solid ground libber bowel movement.

"She was a European-style intellectual: Cosmopolitan, literate, well traveled, multi-talented, ceremonial," she said.

Millett found fame in 1970 with "Sexual Politics", which started sprightliness as a bookman thesis earlier comely a degree of mention for cause theorists.

In the book, she described a greybeard society, took on the misogynism of novelists D.H. St. Lawrence and Patrick Henry Glenn Miller and attacked the theories of Sigmund Sigmund Freud.

Born into an Irish whiskey Catholic crime syndicate in Minnesota on September 14, 1934, Millett designed at the University of North Star State and at Oxford, direction on the Straitlaced flow and European country literature.

Upon her bring back to the Concerted States, she taught English language and began creating sculptures, ahead moving to Japan in 1961. Piece in Japan, she marital sculpturer Fumio Yoshimura.

After upcoming KO'd as a lesbian, she published a memoir, "Flying," in 1974 and some other "Sita," in 1977.

Other full treatment included "The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice" and "Iran," which followed a turn on to the area in bear out of women's rights.

Her ledger "The Loony Bin-Trip" (1990) was divine by her personal know in a psychiatric hospital, where she was sent for affective disorder trouble.

In the book, she described "the terrible toll that such imprisonment took on her artist-soul, her intellectual mind," Chesler aforementioned.

Actress Lena River Dunham was among those posting tributes to Millett on Chitter.

"She pioneered feminist thought, de-stigmatized mental illness, wore massive fashion glasses," the Lord of "Girls" wrote.