false 27879 0 0 An invited speaker at every major university in North America, she has traveled--as organizer, lecturer, journalist--across Europe, to Australia, Brazil, the Caribbean, Central America, China, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, Pacific Island nations, the Philippines, and South Africa; she has twice (1986 and 1989) spent months in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, West Bank, and Gaza, reporting on the conditions of women.
Her books include the novels Dry Your Smile (Doubleday, l987) and The Mer-Child: A Legend for Children and Other Adults (Feminist Press, 1991); nonfiction Going Too Far (Random House, 1977), The Word of A Woman (Norton, 1992, 2nd ed. 1994), and The Anatomy of Freedom (Norton, 1994). Her work has been translated into 13 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, and Sanskrit. Recent books include Upstairs in the Garden: Selected and New Poems (1994) and A Hot January: Poems 1996-1999 (both Norton), Saturday’s Child: A Memoir (Norton, 2000), and her best-selling The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism (Norton, 1989—2nd ed. with new Introduction and Afterword, by Washington Square Press, 2001). Her novel on the Inquisition—The Burning Time—was just published (Melville House, March, 2006,) and her Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right comes out Fall 2006 (Nation Books).
Founder and President of The Sisterhood Is Global Institute (www.sigi.org) and co-founder and Board Member of The Women’s Media Center (www.womensmediacenter.com), she has co-founded and serves on the boards of many women’s organizations in the US and abroad. In 1990, as Ms. Editor-in-Chief, she relaunched the magazine as an international, award-winning, ad-free bimonthly, resigning in late 1993 to become Consulting Global Editor (www.msmagazine.com). A recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Prize (Poetry), and numerous other honors, she lives in New York City, (www.robinmorgan.us)
]]> female Lake Worth, Florida 1941/01/29 132084 0394705394 9780394705392 11 <![CDATA[Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190001342m/132084.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190001342s/132084.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/132084.Sisterhood_Is_Powerful_An_Anthology_of_Writings_from_the_Women_s_Liberation_Movement 4.02 86 27879 3.94 284 52 1970 49499 0743466276 9780743466271 4 <![CDATA[Sisterhood is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millenium]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170359907m/49499.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170359907s/49499.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49499.Sisterhood_is_Forever_The_Women_s_Anthology_for_a_New_Millenium 3.96 47 <CENTER>Thirty years after Robin Morgan's groundbreaking anthology, Sisterhood Is Powerful -- named by The American Librarians' Association one of "The 100 Most Influential Books of the Twentieth Century" -- comes this landmark new collection for the twenty-first century.

Sisterhood Is Forever -- with over 60 original essays Morgan commissioned from well-known feminist leaders plus energetic Gen X and Y activists -- is a composite mural of the female experience in America: where we've been, where we are, where we're going. The stunning scope of topics ranges from reproductive, health, and environmental issues to workplace inequities and the economics of women's unpaid labor; from globalization to the politics of aging; from cyberspace, violence against women, and electoral politics to spirituality, the law, the media, and academia. The deliberately audacious mix of contributors spans different generations, races, ethnicities, and sexual preferences: CEOs, housewives, rock stars, farmers, scientists, prostituted women, politicians, women in prison, firefighters, disability activists, artists, flight attendants, an army general, an astronaut, an anchorwoman, even a pair of teens who edit a girls' magazine. Each article celebrates the writer's personal voice -- her humor, passion, anger, and the integrity of her perspective -- while offering the latest data on women's status, political analysis, new "how-to" tools for activism, and visionary yet practical strategies for the future -- strategies needed now more than ever. Robin Morgan's own contributions are everything her readers expect: prophetic, powerfully argued, unsentimentally lyrical. From her introduction: "The book you hold in your hands is a tool for the future -- a future also in your hands." •

Edna Acosta-Belén • Carol J. Adams • Margot Adler • Natalie Angier • Ellen Appel-Bronstein • Mary Baird • Brenda Berkman • Christine E. Bose • Kathy Boudin • Ellen Bravo • Vednita Carter • Wendy Chavkin • Kimberlé Crenshaw • Gail Dines • Paula DiPerna • Helen Drusine • Andrea Dworkin • Eve Ensler • Barbara Findlen • Mary Foley • Patricia Friend • Theresa Funiciello • Carol Gilligan • Sara K. Gould • Ana Grossman The Guerrilla Girls • Beverly Guy-Sheftall • Kathleen Hanna • Laura Hershey • Anita Hill • Florence Howe • Donna M. Hughes • Karla Jay • Mae C. Jemison • Carol Jenkins • Claudia J. Kennedy • Alice Kessler-Harris Clara Sue Kidwell • Frances Kissling • Sandy Lerner • Suzanne Braun Levine • Barbara Macdonald • Catharine A. MacKinnon Jane Roland Martin • Debra Michals • Robin Morgan Jessica Neuwirth • Judy Norsigian • Eleanor Holmes Norton • Grace Paley • Emma Peters-Axtell Cynthia Rich Amy Richards • Cecile Richards Carolyn Sachs • Marianne Schnall • Pat Schroeder • Patricia Silverthorn • Eleanor Smeal Roslyn D. Smith Gloria Steinem Mary Thom • Jasmine Victoria • Faye Wattleton • Marie Wilson • Helen Zia

]]> 27879 3.94 284 52 2003 491981 193363300X 9781933633008 15 <![CDATA[The Burning Time]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175199043m/491981.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175199043s/491981.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/491981.The_Burning_Time 3.88 32 When the Catholic Church brought The Burning Time-aka, the Inquisition-to Ireland, it met a resistance such as it met nowhere else in Europe. Leading the rebellion was one remarkable noblewoman: Dame Alyce Kyteler, who refused to grant the Church power over her, her lands or her people, and refused to stop the practice of the Old Religion.

In a tale based on actual historic documents and court transcripts, The Burning Time tells the tale of how Dame Alyce is marked as a dangerous heretic by an ambitious emissary of the Pope, who stakes his future on bringing her to heel. To lose the battle with Dame Alyce, he tells his superiors, is to loose all of Ireland.

But Dame Alyce is just as determined to fight back against the invaders' injustice, its forced imposition of a new religion, and its blatant land grab. After she outwits the Church in a court trial, there is no return: Against the penalty of being burned at the stake, she risks all to protect her people, her faith and her beloved Ireland.

Armies are mustered and battle plans laid, and what ensues is a vivid account of an astonishing but little-known woman, and a gripping tale of bravery, treachery, guile and redemption.

Robin Morgan is one of the founders of contemporary American feminism, and the author of numerous germinal books about the women's movement including three classic anthologies: Sisterhood Is Powerful, Sisterhood Is Global, and Sisterhood Is Forever. Morgan is also an award-winning poet, and the author of the bestsellers Saturday's Child: A Memoir and The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism.

]]> 27879 3.94 284 52 2006 353412 0743452933 9780743452939 8 <![CDATA[The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174014621m/353412.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174014621s/353412.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/353412.The_Demon_Lover_The_Roots_of_Terrorism 3.42 31 First published in 1989, The Demon Lover is now more timely than ever: a personal journey as well as a landmark work of investigative journalism. Traveling to the Middle East refugee camps, she gathered the first interviews with Palestinian women about their lives as women, and re-encountered the core connection between patriarchal societies and the inevitability of terrorism. In her final chapter, "Beyond Terror," Morgan sets forth a compelling vision of hope for the future.

]]> 27879 3.94 284 52 1989 195735 1560259485 9781560259480 5 <![CDATA[Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172595775m/195735.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172595775s/195735.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195735.Fighting_Words_A_Toolkit_for_Combating_the_Religious_Right 4.07 15
But most Americans lack the tools for arguing with the religious right, especially when fundamentalist conservatives claim their tradition started with the Framers of The Constitution.

Fighting Words is a a tool-kit for arguing, especially for those of us who haven't read the founding documents of this nation since grade school. Robin Morgan has assembled a lively, accessible, eye-opening primer and reference tool, a "verbal karate" guide, revealing what the Framers and many other leading Americans really believed — in their own words — rescuing the Founders from images of dusty, pompous old men in powdered wigs, and resurrecting them as the revolutionaries they truly were: a hodgepodge of freethinkers, Deists, agnostics, Christians, atheists, and Freemasons — and they were radicals as well.</div>]]> 27879 3.94 284 52 2006 544191 0394482263 9780394482262 3 <![CDATA[Monster;: Poems]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/544191.Monster_Poems 4.40 10 27879 3.94 284 52 1972 94098 0393050157 9780393050158 2 <![CDATA[Saturday's Child: A Memoir]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171274956m/94098.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171274956s/94098.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94098.Saturday_s_Child_A_Memoir 4.44 9 Monster) and fiction (Dry Your Smile). And it contains a marvelously evocative rendering of what it was like to be a child star in 1940s radio ("The Little Robin Morgan Show") and 1950s television (Dagmar on "Mama") In short, there's little that this remarkable woman hasn't experienced and/or written about. Here, she goes lightly over the heady years of resurgent feminism (covered more fully in Sisterhood Is Powerful and Going Too Far), and concentrates instead on exploring less public areas of her life: her fraught relationship with her mother, who managed the performing career that young Robin didn't want, really; her single meeting with the father who abandoned them (described with a refreshing lack of sentimentality); her unconventional marriage to Kenneth Pitchford, which produced a beloved son and endured for more than 20 years, despite Pitchford's homosexuality; and her two long-term relationships with women. Naturally, there are political insights throughout (the first, expressed in a diary entry when Robin was eight), and Morgan chronicles at some length her ongoing engagement in the struggle for international women's rights. But she takes the time here to let us know the woman behind the causes more comprehensively than in her previous nonfiction; and, because she seems as self-aware as she is smart, it's a pleasure to make her further acquaintance. --Wendy Smith]]> 27879 3.94 284 52 2000 371254 1558611606 9781558611603 0 <![CDATA[Sisterhood is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174232615m/371254.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174232615s/371254.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/371254.Sisterhood_is_Global_The_International_Women_s_Movement_Anthology 4.11 9    Sisterhood Is Global has been revered as the essential feminist text on the international women's movement since its first appearance, when it was hailed as "a historic publishing event." The anthology features original essays Morgan commissioned from a deliberately eclectic mix of women both famous and less known-grass-roots activisits, politicians, scholars, querillas, novelists, social scientists, and journalists-representing 70 countries, from every region and political system, with particular emphasis on the Global South. These truth-telling, impassioned essays celebrate the diversity as well as the similarity of women's experience; they also reveal shared female rage, vision, and pragmatic strategies for worldwide feminist solidarity and political transformation.

   Each country's essay is preceded by a statistical preface containing carefully researched and referenced data on the status of women, including: population, birth rate, infant mortality, life expectancy, contraception and abortion (both laws and practices); percentage of women in education, government, and labor force; laws and practices regarding women's religious, secular, educational, and employment rights (including marriage, divorce, motherhood, custody, sexual preference, welfare, prostitution, rape, battery, sexual harrasment, and traditional/cultural practices); "herstory"; "mythography"; and more. Despite dramatic geopolitical changes since the book's first publication, much of the data on women remains virtually the same.

   The first such international collection, Sisterhood Is Global became an instant classic and remains unequalled in its breadth and comprehensiveness. The book covers Afghanistan to Zimbabwe (as well as the status of women in the United Nations itself), and includes moving essays from such distinguished writers as Marjorie Agosin (Chile), Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana), Shulamit Aloni (Israel), Peggy Antrobus (Caribbean), Simone de Beauvoir (France), Lidia Falcon (Spain), Hema Goonatilake (Sri Lanka), Fatima Mernessi (Morocco), Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt), Ana Titkow (Poland), Marilyn Waring (New Zealand), and Xiao Lu (China).

]]> 27879 3.94 284 52 1985 544209 0393034275 9780393034271 1 <![CDATA[The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches, 1968-1992]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/544209.The_Word_of_a_Woman_Feminist_Dispatches_1968_1992 3.67 9 27879 3.94 284 52 1994 544192 039472612X 9780394726120 2 <![CDATA[Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/544192.Going_Too_Far_The_Personal_Chronicle_of_a_Feminist 4.00 7 27879 3.94 284 52 1977