Kate Millett [videorecording] / Claudia Queen & Cyd Slayton. [1977]

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Kate Millett [videorecording] / Claudia Queen & Cyd Slayton. [1977]

This video documents Kate Millett's activities as an artist in residence at the Woman's Building. With assistance from others, she creates large papier-mâché "ladies" that, in Millett's words, "overwhelm their situation."

1 videocassette of 1 (U-matic) (11 min.) : b&w ; 3/4 in. original.

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Woman's Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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In 1973, artist Judy Chicago, graphic designer Sheila Levant de Bretteville, and art historian Arlene Raven founded the Feminist Studio Workshop (FSW), one of the first independent schools for women artists. The founders established the workshop as a non-profit alternative education center committed to developing art based on women's experiences. The FSW focused not only on the development of art skills, but also on the development of women's experiences and the incorporation of th...

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Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors after studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has been described as "a seminal influence on second-wave feminism", and is best known for her book Sexual Politics (1970), which was based on her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University. The feminist, ...

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