New York Radical Feminists
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New York Radical Feminists (NYRF) was a radical feminist group founded by Shulamith Firestone in 1969, after she left Redstockings. Central to NYRF's idea was the idea that men consciously maintained power over women in order to strenthen their egos, but also held that in many ways women internalized their subordination by diminishing their egos and that consciousness raising was key to liberating women from this ingrained subordination. This analysis represented a sort of fusion of between the analysis of gender relations advanced by Redstockings and that of The Feminists. This analysis was codified in Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex in 1970.
After disagreements with other members of the group, Shulamith Firestone left NYRF in 1970 and the group became largely inactive by 1976. Several members kept NYRF together as a small consciousness-raising group until 1989, and NYRF was listed among the signitories to a leaflet produced by the "Coalition for a Feminist Sexuality and Against Sadomasochism", an ad-hoc coalition put together by Women Against Pornography to protest the 1982 Barnard Conference.
New York Radical Feminists should not be confused with New York Radical Women, an earlier radical feminist group also co-founded by Firestone.
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