Cell 16
| File:NMFGIssue2.jpg Cover of Cell 16's journal No More Fun and Games, issue 2 | |
| Formation | 1968 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz |
| Founded at | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Dissolved | 1973 |
Cell 16, started by Abby Rockefeller,[1] was a progressive feminist organization active in the United States from 1968 to 1973, known for its program of celibacy, separation from men, and self-defense training (specifically karate).[2][3] The organization had a journal: No More Fun and Games. Considered too extreme by establishment media, the organization was painted as hard left vanguard.[4]
History
In the summer of 1968, Roxanne Dunbar placed an advertisement in a Boston, Massachusetts, underground newspaper calling for a "Female Liberation Front". The original membership also included Hillary Langhorst, Sandy Bernard, Dana Densmore (the daughter of Donna Allen),[5] Betsy Warrior, Ellen O'Donnell, Jayne West, Mary Ann Weathers, Maureen Maynes, Gail Murray, and Abby Rockefeller.[6][7] The group's name was meant "to emphasize that they were only one cell of an organic movement" and referenced the address of their meetings – 16 Lexington Avenue.[8] No More Fun and Games ceased publication in 1973.[9] Cell 16 disbanded in 1973 as well.[7]
Ideology
In Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's book, Outlaw Woman, in referring to an article by member Dana Densmore titled "On Celibacy" that was published in the first issue of No More Fun and Games (1970), Dunbar-Ortiz explains, "That essay mythologized our group as having taken "vows of celibacy."[10]
References
- ↑ Collier & Horowitz, Peter & David (January 1, 1976). The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty. Holt, Rindhart and Winston. p. 600. ISBN 0030083710.
- ↑ Bevacqua, Maria. Rape on the Public Agenda: Feminism and the Politics of Sexual Assault (2000) ISBN 1-55553-446-5
- ↑ Echols, Alice. Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-75, University of Minnesota Press, 1990, ISBN 0-8166-1787-2, p. 164.
- ↑ Heath, Joseph; Potter, Andrew (May 2005). "Feminism for Sale". This Magazine. Archived from the original on October 22, 2007. Retrieved February 13, 2022.
- ↑ "Donna Allen, 78, a Feminist and an Organizer". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ↑ Endres and Lueck. Women's Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues (1996) ISBN 0-313-28632-9
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Echols, Alice. Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-75, University of Minnesota Press, 1990, ISBN 0-8166-1787-2
- ↑ "Cambridge Women's Heritage Project". Archived from the original on January 28, 2010. Retrieved November 30, 2007.
- ↑ No More Fun and Games, A Journal of Female Liberation
- ↑ Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne (2014). Outlaw Woman. University of Oklahoma. p. 'p. 128'. ISBN 978-0-8061-4479-5.
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External links
- Pearson, Kyra, Mapping rhetorical interventions in "national" feminist histories: Second wave feminism and Ain't I a Woman (1999) (abstract)
- Duke University has digitized vol. 1, no. 2, of the journal "No More Fun and Games"
Further reading
- The Female state. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Cell 16. (1970) OCLC 478356868
- Rosenstock, Nancy (2022). Inside the Second Wave of Feminism. Haymarket Books. ISBN 978-1-64259-704-2. OCLC 1334106045.
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- Women's political advocacy groups in the United States
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- Organizations disestablished in 1973
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