Robin Morgan

Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American radical feminist activist, author, poet, journalist, editor, and former child actress who emerged as a leading figure in the second-wave women's liberation movement of the late 1960s and 1970s. She co-founded the New York Radical Women group in 1967 and organized the seminal 1968 protest against the Miss America pageant, highlighting objectification of women, while editing the influential anthology Sisterhood Is Powerful (1970), which galvanized the contemporary feminist movement and was later named one of the 100 most influential books of the 20th century by the New York Public Library. Morgan's work extended internationally through anthologies like Sisterhood Is Global (1984) and Sisterhood Is Forever (2003), alongside her roles as editor-in-chief of Ms. magazine (1989–1994) and co-founder of the Women's Media Center (2005), though her uncompromising radical positions, including cultural separatism and critiques of pornography and transgender inclusion in women's spaces, have sparked enduring debates within and beyond feminism.

Of Jewish ancestry via her maternal lineage, Morgan's upbringing included no prominently recorded religious observance or communal affiliation, with ethnic identity later self-described in secular terms as European American of Jewish descent. The absence of a father figure reinforced a dynamic of intense maternal projection and control, as recounted in later reflections on her formative years.