1971: PM - Kate Millett

In this short radio extract, Kate Millett talks about her hopes for what feminism can achieve. She envisages a radical reordering of social systems so that the nuclear family wouldn't be the only model adhered to. This would, she feels, be beneficial not only to women but also to men and children, as everyone suffers under patriarchal oppression.

Kate Millett's book Sexual Politics caused huge controversy when it was published in 1970 and, as a writer, she was credited with the idea of making personal issues political. The book had seven print runs and sold 80,000 copies in its first year of publication.

BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 22 March 1971.