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Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, author, political theorist and activist, journalist, lecturer, and former child actor. Since the early 1960s she has been a key radical feminist member of the American Women's Movement, and a leader in the international feminist movement. Her 1970 anthology ''Sisterhood is Powerful'' has been widely credited with helping to start the contemporary feminist movement in the US, and was cited by the New York Public Library as "One of the 100 Most Influential Books of the 20th Century"〔 She has written more than 20 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and is also known as the editor of ''Ms. Magazine.''〔 During the 1960s, she participated in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam 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 founded or co-founded the Feminist Women's Health Network, the National Battered Women's Refuge Network, Media Women, the National Network of Rape Crisis Centers, the Feminist Writers' Guild, the Women's Foreign Policy Council, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Sisterhood Is Global Institute, GlobalSister.org, and Greenstone Women's Radio Network. She also co-founded the Women's Media Center with activist Gloria Steinem and actor/activist Jane Fonda. ==Early life and career== Robin Morgan was born on January 29, 1941 in Lake Worth, Florida, although her birthdate was reported inaccurately throughout her career as a child actor. Her mother, Faith Berkeley Morgan, traveled from her New York residence to Florida to give birth, in order to avoid public scrutiny for her unmarried status.〔 Robin's father, a medical doctor named Mates Morgenstern, did not accompany pregnant Faith on her trip. Robin Morgan grew up in Mount Vernon, New York, and later, on Sutton Place in Manhattan. Her mother and her maternal aunt Sally started her as a child model when she was a toddler. At what she herself and others thought was the age of four (she was actually five years old),〔 she had her own radio program on New York station WOR titled ''Little Robin Morgan''. She was also a regular on the original network radio version of ''Juvenile Jury'', playing herself. She started in the role of Dagmar Hansen, the younger sister in the TV series ''Mama'', starring Peggy Wood, at age seven. The show premiered on CBS in 1949. Morgan guest starred during the Golden Age of Television on such live dramas as ''Omnibus'', ''Suspense'', ''Danger'', ''Hallmark Hall of Fame'', ''Robert Montgomery Presents'', ''Tales of Tomorrow'', and ''Kraft Theatre'', and starred in such "spectaculars" as ''Kiss and Tell'' and ''Alice in Wonderland''. She worked with directors such as Sidney Lumet, John Frankenheimer, Ralph Nelson; writers such as Paddy Chayefsky and Rod Serling; and performed with actors such as Boris Karloff, Rosalind Russell, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and Cliff Robertson.〔 She left the cast of ''Mama'' at age 14, having wanted since age four to write rather than to act. Morgan fought her mother's efforts to keep her in show business.〔 She graduated from The Wetter School in Mount Vernon, New York, in 1956, then was privately tutored from 1956 to 1959.〔 She published her first serious poetry in literary magazines at age 17.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robin Morgan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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