Lila Karp
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1933 – 2008
Who was Lila Karp?
Lila Karp was an activist, writer, teacher and feminist. She is known for her novel The Queen is in the Garbage, and is profiled in the book "Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975". She was among the second-wave feminists in New York in the 1960s and was a member of The Feminists. This group included such notables as Kate Millet, Flo Kennedy, Ti-Grace Atkinson, and Margo Jefferson. Karp was featured in the 1977 documentary "Some American Feminists".
Karp played a vital role in pioneering the field of Women's Studies at Princeton University, where she served as the director of the University Women's Center. She delivered a paper on the subject entitled "Women's Studies: Fear and Loathing in the Ivy League" at the National Women's Studies Association Meeting in 1979. She was appointed the co-director of The Institute for the Study of Women and Men at the University of Southern California in 1991.
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