turned American radical feminist
activist, writer, poet, and editor of Sisterhood is Powerful
and Ms. Magazine
.
During the 1960s, she participated in the civil rights
and anti-war
movements; in the late 1960s she was a founding member of radical feminist organizations such as New York Radical Women
and W.I.T.C.H.. She also founded the Women's Media Center
.
Morgan was born in Lake Worth, Florida
of Jewish ancestry. Her father was not present during her mother's travel from New York to Florida in order to give birth.
Woman is [...] – finally screwing and your groin and buttocks and thighs ache like hell and you're all wet and maybe bloody and it wasn't like a Hollywood movie at all but jesus at least you're not a virgin any more but is this what it's all about?—And meanwhile he's asking, "Did you come?"
Pornography is the theory, and rape is the practice. And what a practice. The violation of an individual woman is the metaphor for man's forcing himself on whole nations [...], on nonhuman creatures [...], and on the planet itself [...].
I feel that "man-hating" is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.
[N]o one appeared to wonder whether this S-M proliferation was a lesbian copy of a faggot imitation of patriarchal backlash against feminism.