Betty Prashker, Pioneering Editor, Dies at 99

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Betty Prashker, publisher of the feminist classics 'Sexual Politics' and 'Backlash,' dies at age 99

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Betty Prashker was one of the first women with the power to acquire books published such classics as Kate Millett's " Sexual Politics " and Susan Faludi's " Backlash " She died July 30 at a family home in Alford , Massachusetts , according to her daughter, Lucy .

At various times, she held executive positions at Crown and Doubleday , now divisions of Penguin Random House .

In the 1970s , Prashker noticed that many of her peers would take authors to the all-male Century Club , an elite gathering space in midtown Manhattan .

Despite being sponsored by William F. Buckley among others, she was initially turned away.

The Century Club was later found in violation of local anti-discriminatory law and reversed its position, in the mid-1980s .

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