Robin Morgan

**Robin Morgan** (born January 29, 1941) is an American activist, poet, and actress. She is most well known for her work as a key member of the feminist movement. She is most well known for organizing the 1968 Miss America Protest in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

## Early life 
She attended The Wetter School in Mount Vernon, and graduated in the year 1956. Although, after finishing her high school degree, her mother did not let her attend a formal university. Instead, she had a private tutor teach her college level courses and took some classes from Columbia University as a part-time student there. This protest fought to end the Miss America annual beauty pageants because they enforced sexist beauty standards. This work spurred her on to join more committees and have a larger voice in the feminist movement as well as other activist movements. From 1989 to 1994 she was the editor-in-chief of Ms. Magazine, the first national liberal feminist news magazine. Globally she traveled all around the world (especially in the late 1980’s) to fight for women's rights, racial equality, and more.
**Kiss and Tell* TV Special (starring as Corliss Archer, 1956)
*Other videos and kinescopes in the Robin Morgan Collection at the Paley Center for Media, NYC
;1980s - 2010s
**Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography* [Feature length Documentary] (as herself) (1981)
**The American Experience* TV Documentary (as herself) (2002)
**1968* TV Documentary with Tom Brokaw (as herself) (2007)
*Interview by Ronnie Eldridge (2007)
**Makers: Women Who Make America*  on PBS (2013)

## Publications 
### Poetry
*1972: *Monster* (Vintage, )
*1976: *Lady of the Beasts: Poems* (Random House, )
*1981: *Death Benefits: A Chapbook* (Copper Canyon, Limited Edition of 200 copies)
*1982: *Depth Perception: New Poems and a Masque* (Doubleday, )
*1999: *A Hot January: Poems 1996–1999* (W. W. Norton, )
*1990: *Upstairs in the Garden: Poems Selected and New* (W. W. Norton, )

### Nonfiction
*1977: *Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist*, (Random House, )
*1982: *The Anatomy of Freedom*  (W.W. Norton, )
*1989: *The Demon Lover: On the Sexuality of Terrorism* (W. W. Norton, )
**2001: *The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism* (Updated Second Edition, Washington Square Press/Simon & Schuster, Inc., )
*1992: *The Word of a Woman* (W.W. Norton, )
*1995: ''A Woman's Creed* (pamphlet), The Sisterhood Is Global Institute
*2001: *Saturday's Child: A Memoir* (W. W. Norton, )
*2006: *Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right* (Nation Books, )

### Fiction
*1987: *Dry Your Smile* (Doubleday, )
*1991: *The Mer-Child: A New Legend for Children and Other Adults*  (The Feminist Press, )
*2006: *The Burning Time* (Melville House, )

### Anthologies
*1969: *The New Woman* (Poetry Editor) (Bobbs-Merrill, )
*1970: *Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement* (Random House, )
*1984: *Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology* (Doubleday/Anchor Books; revised, updated edition The Feminist Press, 1996, )
*2003: *Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium* (Washington Square Press, )

### Essays
* "The politics of sado-masochistic fantasies" in 
* "Light bulbs, radishes and the politics of the 21st century" in 

### Plays
*"Their Own Country" (debut performance, Ascension Drama Series, New York, December 10, 1961 at 8:30pm, Church of the Ascension, reception immediately following.)
*"The Duel." A verse play, published as "A Masque" in her book *Depth Perception'' (debut perf. Joseph Papp's New Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, New York, 1979)

## Related pages 
*List of poets from North America
## References 
## Other websites
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* Womens Media Center
* The Sisterhood is Global Institute
**Ms. Magazine*
* Papers of Robin Morgan, 1929–1991 (inclusive), 1968–1986 (bulk). Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
* Robin Morgan   Video produced by Makers: Women Who Make America
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