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name = Ti-Grace Atkinson
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birthdate = birth date and age|1938|11|09
birthplace = Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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occupation = Author
nationality = United States
period = 1968-1974
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subject = Feminism, LGBT movement
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Ti-Grace Atkinson (born 9 November 1938, Baton Rouge, Louisiana as Grace Atkinson) is an American feminist author. [citebook|title=Heterosexuality: a feminism and psychology reader |author=Sue Wilkinson, Celia Kitzinger|year= 1993|publisher=Sage Publications|id=ISBN 0803988230]
Atkinson was born into a prominent Louisiana family. The "Ti" in her name reflects the Cajun or French language "petite", for little. [ [http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/life/905W-000-004.html "An 'Oppressed Majority' Demands Its Rights"] , by Sara Davidson, "Life Magazine", 1969. Retrieved February 16, 2008.] From 1956 until 1961 she was married to a high-school boyfriend. [citebook|title=Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism |author=David De Leon|year= 1994|publisher=Greenwood Press|id=ISBN 0313274142|url= 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]
She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964.[ [http://ase.tufts.edu/philosophy/people/atkinson.shtml "Ti-Grace Atkinson"] , Tufts University Philosophy Faculty page. Retrieved April 23, 2007.] She joined the National Organization for Women, became its New York chapter's president in 1967 [ [http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/341/341chronology.html Movement Chronology, Civil War-Present] ] , then in 1968 left [ [http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/nat_org_women.html National Organization for Women (NOW)] at glbtq.com.] and founded 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. [Kate Bedford and Ara Wilson [http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/wilson935/chrono2.htm Lesbian Feminist Chronology: 1971-1976] ] Her most famous book, "Amazon Odyssey" was published in 1974. [citebook|title=Loose Women, Lecherous Men: a feminist philosophy of sex |author= Linda J. LeMoncheck|year= 1997|publisher=Oxford University Press|id=ISBN 0195105559|url= 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] ]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)
Quotes
* [citebook|title=Identities: Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality |author=Eduardo Mendieta, Linda Alcoff|year= 2003|publisher=Blackwell Publishing|id=ISBN 0631217231|url= http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0631217231&id=h1nWVlOdsDwC&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162&ots=KGqAi2s4BP&dq=Amazon+Odyssey+Grace+Atkinson&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=6TxiZIzqVpYxPYT3OkWjoERTLM4]
* [citebook|title=Enactments: American Modes and Psychohistorical Models |author= Daniel Dervin|year= 1996|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press|id=ISBN 0838635911|url= http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0838635911&id=QeIgGJgbvbUC&pg=PA244&lpg=PA244&ots=tZMailZn4L&dq=The+institution+of+sexual+intercourse+is+anti-feminist&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=oVrW883K_CrBAN9Hi39gKhzw2OQ]
References
External links
* [http://judychicagoandthecaliforniagirls.com/ti-graceatkinson.html Ti-Grace Atkinson speaks to the Feminist Art program at the California State University at Fresno] . Retrieved April 23, 2007
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