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A powerful and essential anthology that sheds light on the status of women throughout the worldHailed by Alice Walker as "one of the most important human documents of the century," this collection of groundbreaking essays examines the global status of women's experiences, from oppression to persecution. Originally published in 1984, the compilation features pieces written by a diverse set of powerful women—journalists, politicians, grassroots activists, and scholar...

Feminism from the front linesA founder of the contemporary global women's movement, Robin Morgan is widely known as one of feminism's strongest, most persuasive activists. As a writer, she is unique in her ability to distill ideas into smart pieces of nonfiction that can transform a reader's worldview forever.The Word of a Woman follows Morgan's journalism and shorter prose from the 1960s through the early 1990s. Originally published in 1992, this se...

An amazing trajectory: From child star to prize-winning writer to feminist iconRobin Morgan is famous as a bestselling author of nonfiction, a prize-winning poet, and a founder and leader of contemporary feminism . Before all of that, though, she was a working child actor. From the age of two, "Saturday's child had to work for a living." She had her own radio show on New York's WOR, Little Robin Morgan, by the time she was four; starred during the ...

"Disturbing and tons of fun." —The Guardian"Just take all those accolades used for thrillers—unputdownable, twisty, dark, chilling, vivid, explosive, intense—and heap them on. Because this book is that good. That credible. And that terrifying..." —First Clue, Starred ReviewHow far would you go to protect the ones you love?Jamie and Victoria are off for a last quick vacatio...

A riveting exploration of terrorism's relationship to sex, with a new preface by the authorTerrorism is the international crime that has captured the attention of the entire world, forcing governments to make radical changes in security and civil liberties. Meanwhile, everyone tries to comprehend the real reasons that inspire such violence.This is where political philosopher Robin Morgan begins The Demon Lover, a groundbreaking work of investigative ...

Beginning in London and ricocheting across the Atlantic, 1963: The Year of the Revolution is an oral history of twelve months that changed our world—the Youth Quake movement—and laid the foundations for the generation of today.Ariel Leve and Robin Morgan's oral history is the first book to recount the kinetic story of the twelve months that witnessed a demographic power shift—the rise of the Youth Quake movement, a cultural transformation through music, fa...

The debut poetry collection from one of feminism's most passionate voices, with a new preface by the authorWell before Robin Morgan was known as a feminist leader, literary magazines published her as a serious poet, and in 1979 she received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry. Monster, her first collection, originally published in 1972, contains work that will astonish, disorient, and move readers in powerful ways....

She inspected her knitting. "A yarn imagines itself, you know," she murmured," from separate strands. Every story is made of strands, too, of worlds that keep unfolding simultaneously along the same yarn. You can spot one at a time or, rarely, a multitude swarming—though no yarner can ever glimpse both the individual tale and the swarm at the same moment. Imagination can conceal while it reveals. Sooner or later, though, everything gets used."In Parallax, Robin Morgan's most radiant...

At the age of forty, Abby is feeling some very old but familiar feelings. Whilst no one is taking her seriously, Abby feels if she does not make a bold, scary effort, the Curio's could separate forever. Driven by fear, Abby takes a huge leap of faith, and turns her whole life upside down, in order to make Birch and the rest of Curio's sit up and take note.The final part of the Curio's puzzle is a wild adventure for the adult Curio's, as Abby takes the lead, and pulls them back into...

The classic of feminist vision by one of its greatest writers, with a new preface by the authorWith the advent of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, physics and our world changed forever. In The Anatomy of Freedom, Robin Morgan shows us how the empowerment of women—half of humanity—will have the same transformative power for society that e=mc2 had for the physical world.This is not simply another feminist treatise. Morgan looks beyond the wome...

The personal papers of one of feminism's most passionate leaders, with a new preface by the authorAs an activist for social justice, Robin Morgan has acquired a reputation for strong convictions and a life-affirming way of expressing them through writing. Nowhere is this more evident than in Going Too Far, which takes us behind the scenes in Morgan's life and in the women's movement until 1977. We watch the development of an organizer who is a complex think...

Love transcends all barriers in this modern fairy taleWhen the Mer-Child learned the story of the Little Mermaid, he recognized it as the account of his mother and father, the beautiful mermaid and the human man for whom she sacrificed everything. But that love had left their offspring, the Mer-Child, stranded between worlds, as unwelcome in the realm of the sea as in the earth above. Never fitting in, he has been left to wander, searching for friends, his silvery t...