Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Letty Cottin Pogrebin (b. June 9, 1939) is an American writer and journalist. (The name Pogrebin is stressed on the first syllable: POH-grebin.) She graduated from Brandeis University and became a writer and feminist advocate in the early 1970s. In 1971, she was one of the founding editors of "Ms. Magazine", where she worked for 17 years, and a co-founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus. She was also a consultant on "Free to Be… You and Me" and edited "Stories for Free Children".

Pogrebin is a well-known advocate for feminist, Jewish, and Jewish-feminist causes, as well as a political activist on topics such as hunger, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and African American-Jewish relations. Her publications include "Getting Yours: How to Make the System Work for the Working Woman"; "Growing Up Free: Raising Your Child in the 80s"; "Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America"; and "Three Daughters".

References

* [http://www.jwa.org/feminism/?id=JWA058 Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution] from the [http://www.jwa.org Jewish Women's Archive]


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