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| Ti-Grace Atkinson | |
|---|---|
| Name | Ti-Grace Atkinson |
| Birth date | 1938 |
| Birth place | Robeline, Louisiana, United States |
| Occupation | Feminist activist, writer |
| Notable works | The Liberation of Women; Disentangling |
Ti-Grace Atkinson was an American radical feminist, activist, and writer prominent in second-wave feminism and feminist theory in the 1960s and 1970s. She engaged with organizations, demonstrations, and polemical writing that connected to debates involving consciousness-raising, legal reform, cultural critique, and leftist politics, interacting with figures and institutions across the United States and Europe.
Born in Robeline, Louisiana, Atkinson grew up in the American South and later studied at institutions associated with intellectual and cultural networks that included New York University, Vassar College, Smith College, and circles around Columbia University and Harvard University during the postwar era. Her formative years coincided with national events such as the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War, which shaped the milieu of activists and theorists like Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Shulamith Firestone, Angela Davis, and bell hooks. Interactions with legal and political milieus connected her to debates unfolding at venues such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization for Women, and various leftist and radical publications.
Atkinson was active in organizations and actions that intersected with groups such as National Organization for Women, Redstockings, Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, Sisterhood Is Powerful, and independent feminist collectives across New York City, Washington, D.C., and Paris. She participated in demonstrations that paralleled moments like the Miss America protest (1968), the Stonewall riots, and protests against the Vietnam War, coordinating with activists and intellectuals including Kate Millett, Ti-Grace Atkinson-adjacent peers, and theorists from the New Left and Students for a Democratic Society. Her organizational work linked to legal advocacy appearing before bodies akin to the United States Supreme Court, local state legislatures, and civic forums influenced by labor and radical movements such as the Industrial Workers of the World and the Black Panther Party.
Atkinson authored polemical essays and books that entered debates alongside works by Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Germaine Greer, Susan Brownmiller, and Kate Millett. Her writings engaged institutions and cultural artifacts including The New York Times, Ms. (magazine), The Village Voice, and journals related to New Left Review and Feminist Studies. She addressed legal and philosophical sources such as John Stuart Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Sigmund Freud, and Michel Foucault while dialoguing with contemporaneous feminist theory from scholars at Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, and Yale University. Her intellectual contributions influenced debates at symposia and conferences hosted by organizations like the American Philosophical Association, the Modern Language Association, and the American Historical Association.
Atkinson's positions provoked controversies that involved public figures and institutions including Linda Lovelace, Susan Sontag, Andrea Dworkin, Gloria Steinem, and publications like Time (magazine), Life (magazine), and The Washington Post. Debates with advocates of sexual liberation, civil liberties advocates, and sex workers' rights proponents echoed across forums connected to Planned Parenthood, National Organization for Women, and academic departments at Columbia University and New York University. Critics and supporters referenced legal cases and policy debates in which courts such as the United States Court of Appeals and commissions like the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission played roles, while commentators from The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper's Magazine debated her positions. Discussions also intersected with international feminist controversies involving figures from France, United Kingdom, and Canada.
In later decades Atkinson's influence persisted through collections, anthologies, and archival holdings at repositories comparable to the Schlesinger Library, the Library of Congress, and university special collections at Radcliffe College, Barnard College, and Smith College. Her legacy is discussed alongside movements and thinkers such as Second-wave feminism, Radical feminism, Ecofeminism, Intersectionality, Postmodern feminism, Feminist legal theory, and scholars working at institutions including Rutgers University, University of Michigan, Stanford University, and University of California, Los Angeles. Her career continues to be studied in courses, symposia, and retrospectives that involve museums and cultural centers like the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and cultural programs at The New School.
Category:American feminists Category:1938 births Category:Living people