Robin Evonne Morgan

Background

Morgan, Robin Evonne was born on January 29, 1941 in Lake Worth, Florida, United States.

Education

Graduate with honors, The Wetter School, 1956; student, private tutors, 1956-1959; student, Columbia University Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Connecticut, 1992.

Career

Free-lance book editor, 1961-1969; editor, Grove Press, 1967-1970; editor, columnist World column, Mississippi Magazine, New York City, 1974-1987; editor in chief, Mississippi Magazine, New York City, 1989-1993; international consultant editor, Mississippi Magazine, New York City, since 1993. Visiting chair and guest professor women's studies New College, Sarasota, Florida,1973. Distinguished visiting scholar, lecturer Center Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University, 1987, U. Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1989, U. Denver Graduate School International Affairs, 1996-1997.

Invitedspl. consultant United Nations committee United Nations Convention to End All Forms Discrimination Against Women, Sao Paulo and Brasilia, Brazil, 1987. Member of advisory board ISIS (international network women's international cross-cultural exchange). Special advisor general assembly conference on Gender United Nations International School, 1985-1986.

Free-lance journalist, lecturer consultant, editor, since 1969. Invited speaker numerous conferences, organizations, academic meetings, United States and abroad.

Works

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  • Demon Lover: On the Sexuality of Terrorism

    (In the first feminist analysis of the phenomenon called "...)

  • The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches, 1968-1992

    (These two decades (almost a quarter-century, in fact) of ...)

  • The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

    (These two decades (almost a quarter-century, in fact) of ...)

  • A Hot January: Poems, 1996-1999

    (Robin Morgan's work, celebrated for its vindication of fe...)

  • A Hot January: Poems 1996-1999

    ( Breaking a seven-year silence, the prize-winning poet w...)

  • Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right

    ( The religious right is gaining enormous power in the Un...)

  • Death Benefits: Poems

    ( Robin Morgan’s lyrical gifts are again on display in th...)

  • Upstairs in the Garden: Poems Selected and New 1968-1988

    (Audacious, courageous, poignant, wry? Robin Morgan's coll...)

  • The anatomy of freedom: Feminism, physics, and global politics

    (Great book for research, study, or review!)

  • The Burning Time

    ("A fantastic page-turner." —Historical Novels Review   Ba...)

  • Depth perception: New poems and a masque

    (Book by Morgan, Robin)

  • Monster: Poems by Robin Morgan

    (Book by Robin Morgan)

  • Monster; poems
  • The Demon Lover: On the Sexuality of Terrorism
  • Lady of the beasts: Poems
  • Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist
  • The Demon Lover: On the Sexuality of Terrorism Paperback July, 1990

Membership

Member 1st women's liberation caucus Congress of Racial Equality, 1965, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1966. Organizer 1st feminist demonstration against Miss American Pageant, 1968. Founder, president Sisterhood is Powerful Fund, 1970, New York Women's Law Center, 1970.

Founder New York Women's Center, 1969. Co-founder, board directors Feminist Women's Health Network, National Battered Women's Refuge Network, National Network Rape Crisis Center. Board directors Women's Foreign Policy Council.

Advisory trustee National Women's Institute Freedom of Press. Founding member National Museum Women in Arts. Founder Sisterhood is Global Institute, 1984, officer, 1989-1997, chair advisory board, 1997-2004, president, since 2004.

Co-founder National Women's Media Center, 2005, Greenstone Radio Network, 2006, GlobalSister.org. Co-organizer, United States member official visit Coalition of Philippines Women's Movement, 1988. Chair New York state committee Hands Across American Committee for Justice and Empowerment, 1988.

Advisory board Global Fund for Women, Equality Now. Member National Museum Women in Arts, Feminist Writers' Guild, Media Women, North America Feminist Coalition, Pan Arab Feminist Solidarity Association (honorary), Israeli Feminists Against Occupation (honorary).

Connections

1 child, Blake Ariel.

child:

Blake Ariel Morgan