Robin Morgan

Robin Morgan ( born January 29, 1941 in Lake Worth, Florida) is an American writer, journalist, poet and feminist.

Life

Robin Morgan grew up as the daughter of Faith Berkeley Morgan up in a Jewish family in Florida. At the age of four, she had called her own radio show, the Little Robin Morgan; 1949 to 1956, she starred in several films and TV series with. As a child actor on U.S. television, she was known in the role of Dagmar Hansen in the CBS television series Mama. In her autobiography Saturday's Child (2000) condemns this as exploitation, although they liked to do the work as a child and had described himself as "the luckiest little girl in the whole world ." In 1962 she married the openly gay poet Kenneth Pitchford, from which they later divorced. Together they have a son, and in 1969 geboreren musician Blake Morgan Pitchford.

In the late 1960s, Morgan was together with Abbie Hoffman and Paul Krassner temporary members of the Youth International Party. At the same time it was from the late 1960s, an activist of the U.S. women's movement and, with Shulamith Firestone of the founding members of the New York Radical Women.

Robin Morgan lives in Manhattan, New York City.

Work

Robin Morgan wrote more than 20 books, including five volumes of poetry, three novels and numerous essays. Your first anthology Sisterhood is powerful (1970), a collection of articles of the most famous American feminists contributed to the dissemination of feminist thought and in a change from activism to theory building. The New York Public Library is one of the 100 most important books of the 20th century. Her second anthology Sisterhood is global (1984 ) a collection of articles about the situation of women in 70 countries. With their theoretical work, The Anatomy of Freedom (1982, German: Anatomy of Freedom, 1985) was an influential feminist theorist of the second wave of the women's movement in Germany.

In 1984 she founded the Sisterhood Is Global Institute ( SIGI ), which organizes conferences for feminist authors and tank of the human rights of women acts as a think global. Along with Gloria Steinem she was in the 1970s, co-founder and editor of the liberal- feminist magazine Ms., 1990-1993 editor in chief. Morgan wrote essays, interviews, policy analysis and reports, among other things, in the Guardian ( U.S. and UK), the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, the New York Times and the Village Voice published.

Your study of the psychological and political roots of terrorism The Demon Lover by 1989 became a bestseller. After the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, the second edition appeared, to the Chapter expanded Letters from Ground Zero.

Robin Morgan has received numerous awards, including the Feminist Majority Foundation Woman of the Year Award, the Award for Distinguished Journalism FrontPage ( Ms. Magazine ) and the National Endowment for the Arts Prize ( poetry).

Publications (selection)

Anthologies

  • Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement. In 1970.
  • Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology. In 1984.
  • Sisterhood is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium. Washington Square Press, 2003, ISBN 0-7434-6627-6.

Essays and nonfiction

  • Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist. Random House, 1978, ISBN 0-394-72612- X.
  • The Anatomy of Freedom. 1982; German: Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism, Physics, and world politics. Frauenoffensive, Munich 1985.
  • Frontline Feminism, 1975-1995: Essays from Sojourner's First 20 Years.
  • The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism. Norton & Washington Square Press, 1989, 2nd edition. 2001, ISBN 0-7434-5293-3.
  • Saturday's Child: A Memoir. W. W. Norton, 2000, ISBN 0-393-05015-7.
  • Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right. Nation Books, 2006, ISBN 1-56025-948-5.

Novels

  • The Burning Time. Melville House Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-933633-00- X.

Poetry

  • Monster, Random House 1972.
  • Upstairs in the Garden: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1988. W. W. Norton, 1991, ISBN 0-393-30760-3.
  • A Hot January: Poems 1996-1999. W. W. Norton, New York 1999, ISBN 0-393-04801-2.
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