Robin Morgan

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

Robin Morgan (2012)

Life

Robin Morgan grew up as the daughter of Faith Berkeley Morgan in a Jewish family in Florida. By the age of four she had her own radio show called Little Robin Morgan . From 1949 to 1956 she starred in various films and TV series. As a child star on US television, she became known in the role of Dagmar Hansen on the CBS television series Mama . In her memoirs Saturday's Child (2000), she condemns this as exploitation, although she enjoyed doing work as a child and described herself as "the luckiest little girl in the whole world". In 1962 she married the openly gay poet Kenneth Pitchford, from whom she later divorced. Together they have a son, the musician Blake Morgan-Pitchford, who was born in 1969.

In the late 1960s, Morgan was part of the Youth International Party for a time, along with Abbie Hoffman and Paul Krassner . At the same time she became an activist of the US women's movement from the end of the 1960s and, along with Shulamith Firestone, is one of the founding members of the New York Radical Women .

Robin Morgan lives in Manhattan , New York City .

plant

Robin Morgan wrote more than 20 books, including five volumes of poetry, three novels and numerous essays. Her first anthology, Sisterhood is Powerful (1970), a collection of articles by the most prominent American feminists, contributed to the spread of feminist thought and a shift from activism to theory. The New York Public Library ranks it among the 100 most important books of the 20th century. Her second anthology, Sisterhood is global (1984), brings together contributions on the living conditions of women in 70 countries. With her theoretical work The Anatomy of Freedom (1982, German: Anatomie der Freiheit , 1985), she also became 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 as a think tank of the human rights act for women worldwide. Together with Gloria Steinem , she was co-founder and editor of the liberal-feminist magazine Ms. in the 1970s, and from 1990 to 1993 editor-in-chief. Morgan wrote essays, interviews, political analyzes and reports that have been published in the Guardian (US and UK), the Los Angeles Times , The New Republic , the New York Times and the Village Voice , among others .

Her 1989 study of the psychological and political roots of terrorism, The Demon Lover , became a best-seller. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 , the second edition was published, expanded to include the chapter Letters from Ground Zero .

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

Works

Anthologies

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

Essays and non-fiction books

  • 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. Women's offensive, Munich 1985.
  • Front Line 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. WW 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 Mer-Child: A New Legend for Children and Other Adults. The Feminist Press at City University of NY 1991.
  • 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. WW Norton, 1991, ISBN 0-393-30760-3 .
  • A Hot January: Poems 1996-1999. WW Norton, New York 1999, ISBN 0-393-04801-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sarah Milstein's Review of Saturday's Child. A Memoir The New York Times, Nov. 28, 2000
  2. ^ The New York Public Library's Books of the Century
  3. ^ Reena Bernards: Robin Morgan , Jewish Women A Comprehensive Historical Enzyclopedia , in: Jewish Women's Archive
personal data
SURNAME Morgan, Robin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Lake Worth , Florida