Claiming 'Herstory' Instead of 'History'... Robin Morgan Dies

[Financial News] Robin Morgan, an icon of the U.S. women's movement who was also a poet and editor, died at a hospital in New York on the 5th local time, AP and other outlets reported. She was 85.
Born in Florida in 1941 and raised in New York, Morgan attended Columbia University, where she took part in poetry workshops. She also participated in the civil rights movement and protests against the Vietnam War. At 21, she married poet Kenneth Pitchford and had a son. In the 1960s, she led women's groups including New York Radical Women and the Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (W.I.T.C.H.), helping drive the radical women's movement known as second-wave feminism.
In 1968, she led the first protest against the Miss America pageant and, along with fellow activists, threw bras into a trash can. She also created and popularized the image combining a clenched fist with the female symbol (♀). Criticizing the English word 'history' as male-centered, she coined the term 'herstory.' Her 1970 anthology of essays, Sisterhood Is Powerful, is considered one of the essential texts of the modern women's movement.
In 1970, she and fellow activists occupied the offices of Grove Press, which was embroiled in a labor dispute, and were arrested and detained. From 1989 to 1994, she served as editor-in-chief of Ms., the magazine founded by Gloria Steinem and others. Steinem died on the 2nd. In 2005, Morgan co-founded the nonprofit Women's Media Center with Steinem and actress Jane Fonda.
She published more than 20 books, including the memoir Saturday's Child (2001). 1963: The Year of the Revolution was translated and published in South Korea under the title 1963: The Year of the Daring Revolution.




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