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{SPEAKER name="Carolyn Carr"}
with being on the cover of Time Magazine and in fact she refused to sit for her portrait.
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And if you had been here in 1998, you could have heard her talk about the portrait
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and being, and Time Magazine, and the impact that it had on her life and her career.
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One of the reasons she did not want to be on the cover was the Women's Movement was seen as a leaderless movement.
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No one was supposed to stand out, get notoriety above the other. But that's not really how it happens.
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Every movement, while it's a collective entity, has somebody who stands out as the spokesperson, and that was Millett.
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The interesting thing about the Time Magazine article was not only did it make her a persona non grata amongst some in the Women's Movement,
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but it also noted that she was, to use the phrase of the day, bisexual.
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And this, talking about her lesbian interest, tanked the book sales in addition to embarrassing her mother tremendously
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And I like to think of the change that has occurred in society, uh- today, where people look at not what is someone's sexual orientation,
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but rather what kind of an individual are they, what can they contribute to society
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And in fact, let me- the Time Magazine article, you could probably find it online,
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is interesting because it both took the women's movement seriously at the same time there was a little jocular put-down in the tone of the writing.
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What fascinated me were this set of statistics that said in 1970, 9% of the faculties in universities were women
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Today, it's closer to 50%
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It said 7% of doctors were women
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Today med schools have an enrollment of nearly 50%
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And it said 3% were lawyers
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Well right now something like 51% of the classes in law school are women
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You have to remember this is the time when the men's school Yale strikes me, Amherst, Williams, were schools for men today
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They- within the next five years they all converted to co-ed
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It was a radical, dynamic change
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What happened to Millett after this article in addition to the fact that her book sales dropped?
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And how many of you have read "Sexual Politics"?
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Transcription Notes:
transcribed up until about 7:55, need to finish Not sure about the school names at 9:39 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-06-15 19:15:27