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Robin Morgan

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Robin Morgan

Poet and editor who put Sisterhood Is Powerful into the century’s library.

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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.

In brief

Robin Morgan began as a child actor and became a writer who organized as she published. Sisterhood Is Powerful (1970) collected voices that the New York Public Library later ranked among the century’s most influential books.

She edited Ms., wrote poetry and memoir, and kept an international brief for women’s rights. The through-line is language used as a tool, not a decoration.

Robin Morgan
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