Robin Morgan

Robin Morgan is an American poet, novelist, journalist, and feminist activist who helped shape the women’s liberation movement and its literature.

Kate Millett: Kate Millett was an American feminist writer, artist, and activist whose book Sexual Politics analyzed power in literature and society. Millett and Morgan were prominent writers in the women’s liberation movement.
Women’s liberation movement: The women’s liberation movement was a decentralized feminist movement that challenged gender inequality, especially in the late 1960s and 1970s. Morgan became a prominent organizer and writer within this broader movement.
Ms. magazine: Ms. is an American feminist magazine founded in 1972 by a collective that included Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes. Morgan contributed to feminist journalism and public debate in the magazine’s media sphere.
Goodbye to All That: “Goodbye to All That” is Robin Morgan’s 1970 essay criticizing sexism in the New Left and among prominent men. The essay made Morgan’s critique of male authority in progressive movements widely visible.
Gloria Steinem: Gloria Steinem is an American journalist and feminist organizer who co-founded Ms. magazine and the National Women’s Political Caucus. Steinem and Morgan both helped build feminist media and organizing networks.
New York Radical Women: New York Radical Women was a feminist group founded in 1967 that organized protests and consciousness-raising in New York City. Morgan participated in this group during the movement’s formative years.
Sisterhood Is Global Institute: The Sisterhood Is Global Institute is an international feminist organization founded to support women’s human rights and activism. Morgan co-founded the institute to connect feminist organizing across national boundaries.
Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement: Sisterhood Is Powerful is a 1970 collection of feminist essays, documents, and manifestos edited by Robin Morgan. Its broad compilation helped preserve and circulate women’s liberation writing.
Ti-Grace Atkinson: Ti-Grace Atkinson is an American feminist philosopher and activist who led New York Radical Women and founded The Feminists. Atkinson’s radical organizing overlapped with Morgan’s early activism.
Consciousness-raising: Consciousness-raising is a feminist practice in which participants share personal experiences to identify patterns of systemic inequality. Morgan helped popularize the practice through organizing and the anthology Sisterhood Is Powerful.

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Catharine A. MacKinnonRelated: Morgan’s feminist activism formed part of the movement context in which MacKinnon’s work circulated.