Career
She is known for her novel The Queen is in the Garbage, and is profiled in the book "Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975". 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.