Lila Karp (1933 – September 15, 2008) was an American feminist author, teacher, activist, and psychotherapist. She is best known for her 1969 novel ''The Queen Is in the Garbage'

and is profiled in the book ''Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975''. Karp spent a decade living in London, where she wrote ''The Queen Is in the Garbage'', before moving to New York City in the late 1960s. She was among the second-wave feminists in New York in the 1960s and was a member of

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. This group included such notables as

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, Flo Kennedy,

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, and

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. Karp was featured in the 1977 documentary ''Some American Feminists'

Karp played a vital role in pioneering the field of

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, 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

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Meeting in 1979. She was appointed the co-director of The Institute for the Study of Women and Men at the

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in 1991.

References

*Karp, Lila. ''The Queen is in the Garbage''. Feminist Press at CUNY, 2007. *Love, Barbara J. ''Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975''. University of Illinois Press, 2006.

External links

"The Queen is in the Garbage"
The Feminist Press.

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