Ti-Grace Atkinson (b.1938,) fully Grace Atkinson, is an American radical feminist, writer, and philosopher known for her activism in second-wave feminism and critiques of patriarchy and traditional gender roles. She was an early member of the National Organization for Women (NOW) but later founded The Feminists, a radical feminist group.
Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, earning a BFA (1964,) then pursued philosophy at Columbia under Arthur Danto. Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex profoundly shaped her feminist ideology.
Atkinson served as NOW’s New York chapter president (1967–68) but left over disagreements on hierarchy and abortion rights. In 1968, she founded The Feminists, advocating political lesbianism and the abolition of marriage.
Notable works include The Institution of Sexual Intercourse (1968,) critiquing heterosexual relationships; Radical Feminism and Love (1969,) examining power dynamics in romance; and Amazon Odyssey (1974,) a collection of her feminist writings.
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Love is the victim’s response to the rapist.
—Ti-Grace Atkinson
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