Millett, Kate.

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: June 19, 1977 (Part 1 and 3 only)

    A Women’s Magazine of the Air, produced by the WBAI Women’s Department, featuring: Part one: Hot Flashes, women’s news from the Majority Report; Part three: Kate Millett interviewed by Judy Pasternak and Viv Sutherland (recording breaks in mid-interview) about her new book “Sita” (1976, Virago); Part two is missing: “Woman’s Place,” a story by Irene…

  • Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Kate Millett

    Poetry readings by Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde, recorded at St. Peter’s Church in New York City, March 7, 1979, and a talk by Kate Millett recorded at Judson Memorial Church, May 4th, 1979. Poems read by Rich include: 2:21–“For Julian in Nebraska”, 5:32–“The Image” (1976 trip to Crete), 13:20–“Spring 1979” (unfinished poem). Poems read…

  • Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Kate Millett (Part 2 of 2)

    This reel (Part 2 of 2) continues a talk by Kate Millet about her visit to Iran and the March 8 International Women’s Day March protest against the Shah’s corrupt government that she experienced. Millett’s comments from the Judson Memorial Church on May 4th.

  • Kate Millett reading from The Basement and Andrea Dworkin at the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography Conference (1978)

    Contents: 1. Kate Millett reads from a new book (to be published in about a year) entitled The Basement: Meditations on a Case of Human Sacrifice, at the San Francisco International Poetry Festival, about a young woman tortured and killed for sex (November 5, 1978). 2. Exhortation to march at the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography…

  • Kate Millett goes on all day about Simone de Beauvoir

    Kate Millett speaks about Simone de Beauvoir as a biographer (38 min.). After some blank spots in the recording, there is a question and answer session to 62 minutes. Ambient noise follows, rest of tape is blank. Likely recorded at a colloquium on Simone De Beauvoir held at The French House at Columbia University April…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: May 9, 1979

    This program contains a review of Alive!, a women’s jazz group from Berkeley, and a review of Edwina Tyler’s “A Piece of the World” dance and percussion performance. Merlin Stone presents a piece of Goddess lore (cut off). Community announcements. Fatima Kahlil from Turkey speaks about the veil of women in Iran, and finally author…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: July 30, 1980 (Part 1 only)

    This is the production reel for the July 30, 1980 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer. This recording contains a reading by Kate Millet of her statement denouncing death by stoning of Iranian women in Iran. Next is Eileen Zalisk interviewing Marge DeFazio about Women 80 and a planned march down 5th Ave upcoming on August…

  • Political positions on sex / moderated by Kay Lindsey.

    Anne Koedt, Lila Karp, Kate Millett, and Roxanne Dunbar (Ortiz) discuss sexuality and possible alternatives for women with moderator Kate Lindsey. Topics include the sexual revolution, the historical denial of the female orgasm, and how women are expected to submit to male desires.

  • Who we are / by Kate Millett ; produced by Helene Rosenbluth.

    Kate Millett, lesbian-feminist, sculptor and author of Sexual Politics, gives a brief history of the gay movement during this address at the Gay Academic Union national conference in November 1978. Millett was the keynote speaker at the conference. In her talk she describes gays and lesbians of the present moment as being “second-wave,” and elaborates…

  • Kate Millett and her book Flying

    Kate Millett interviewed by Paul Vangelisti on her book “Flying” and her ideals about art in her life. Previously cataloged as “The artist and Flying.”