Women’s Liberation and Radical Feminist Organizing in Ti-Grace Atkinson’s Radical Feminism, 1969

Ti-Grace Atkinson

Ephemera and pamphlets

Atkinson, Ti-Grace. Radical Feminism is a 1969 movement pamphlet documenting the ideological formation of second wave radical feminism through the organizing system of The Feminists, the group Atkinson founded after leaving the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women. The text reveals how militant feminist theory challenged liberal equality models by treating women as a political class and by examining sex, reproduction, marriage, and institutional power as mechanisms of women’s subordination. It provides primary-source evidence for the study of women’s liberation, radical feminist organizing, anti-hierarchical movement politics, and the internal divisions that reshaped feminist activism in New York during the late 1960s.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace. Radical Feminism. New York: The Feminists, 1969. First edition. Scarce; OCLC locates four copies, according to a contemporary dealer record. Quarto. Self-wrappers, staplebound at upper left corner, printed from typescript on tan stock. The pamphlet was issued by The Feminists, initially known as the October 17th Movement, a New York City radical feminist group founded by Atkinson after her break with NOW. Syracuse University’s collection guide identifies The Feminists as a New York City-based second-wave radical feminist group initially known as the October 17th Movement.

The pamphlet belongs to the print culture of women’s liberation, where short, inexpensive typescript texts circulated arguments quickly among organizers, consciousness-raising groups, and allied feminist networks. Minimal wear; printed sheets clean and well preserved; staple intact. Overall near fine. A sharp example of late-1960s radical feminist print, preserving Atkinson’s effort to define feminism as a structural political analysis rather than a campaign for formal equality alone.

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