Ti-Grace Atkinson
| Ti-Grace Atkinson |
| Born |
November 9, 1938 (1938-11-09) (age 73)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Occupation |
Author, Theorist |
| Nationality |
United States |
| Period |
1968-1974 |
| Subjects |
Feminism, LGBT movement, |
| Literary movement |
Feminist, Radical Feminist |
Influences
- Simone de Beauvoir, Florynce Kennedy
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Ti-Grace Atkinson (born November 9, 1938 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as Grace Atkinson) is an American feminist author.[1]
Atkinson was born into a prominent Louisiana family. The "Ti" in her name reflects the Cajun or French language petite, for little.[2][3]
Atkinson earned her BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania in 1964 .[4] While still in Philadelphia she helped to found the Institute of Contemporary Art, acting as its first director, and was sculpture critic for the periodical ARTnews. She later moved to New York where, in 1967, she entered the Ph.D program in Philosophy at Columbia University.
It was as an undergraduate that Atkinson read Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, and struck up a correspondence with Beauvoir, who suggested that she contact Betty Friedan.[5] Atkinson thus became an early member of the National Organization for Women, which Friedan had founded, serving on the national board, and becoming the New York chapter president in 1967.[6] In 1968 she left the organization[7] to found the October 17th Movement, which later morphed into The Feminists, a radical feminist group active until 1973. By 1971 she had written several pamphlets on feminism, was a member of the Daughters of Bilitis and was advocating specifically political lesbianism.[8] Her most famous book, Amazon Odyssey, was published in 1974.[9]
Bibliography
- "The Institution of Sexual Intercourse" (pamphlet, 1968, published by The Feminists)
- "Vaginal orgasm as a mass hysterical survival response" (pamphlet, 1968, published by The Feminists)
- "Radical Feminism" (pamphlet, 1969, published by The Feminists)
- "Radical Feminism and Love" (pamphlet, 1969, published by The Feminists)
- Amazon Odyssey (1974)
References
- ^ Sue Wilkinson, Celia Kitzinger (1993). Heterosexuality: a feminism and psychology reader. Sage Publications. ISBN 0803988230.
- ^ "An 'Oppressed Majority' Demands Its Rights", by Sara Davidson, Life Magazine, 1969. Retrieved February 16, 2008.
- ^ David De Leon (1994). Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313274142. http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0313274142&id=M5O66-pLg_MC&pg=PA244&lpg=PA244&ots=MWL44a1y6f&dq=%22Ti-Grace+Atkinson%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=vnIgl0iurEmYCowLF5RCiX91m_o.
- ^ "Ti-Grace Atkinson", Tufts University Philosophy Faculty page. Retrieved April 23, 2007.
- ^ O'Dea, Suzanne. From Suffrage to the Senate: an encyclopedia of American women in politics. ABC-CLIO, Inc. 1999.
- ^ Movement Chronology, Civil War-Present
- ^ National Organization for Women (NOW) at glbtq.com.
- ^ Kate Bedford and Ara Wilson Lesbian Feminist Chronology: 1971-1976
- ^ Linda J. LeMoncheck (1997). Loose Women, Lecherous Men: a feminist philosophy of sex. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195105559. http://books.google.co.uk/books?vid=ISBN0195105559&id=DnQfYHzo4owC&pg=PA229&lpg=PA229&ots=G2kGxaDSNK&dq=Amazon+Odyssey+Grace+Atkinson+1974&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=KhYaP2Hwy3rSBfth7jrLFWDNLUk.
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Atkinson, Ti-Grace |
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| Date of birth |
November 9, 1938 |
| Place of birth |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
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