Anne Koedt

Anne Koedt
Born1941 (age 82–83)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality
  • American
  • Danish
OccupationActivist
Notable work"The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" (1970)
Spouse
Ellen Levine
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(m. 2011; died 2012)​
ParentInger Koedt

Anne Koedt (born 1941)[1] is an American radical feminist activist and author of "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm",[2] a 1970 classic feminist work on women's sexuality.[1] She was connected to the group New York Radical Women and was a founding member of New York Radical Feminists.[3]

  1. ^ a b Gerhard, Jane (Summer 2000). "Revisiting "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm": the female orgasm in American sexual thought and second wave feminism". Feminist Studies. 26 (2): 449–476. doi:10.2307/3178545. hdl:2027/spo.0499697.0026.216. JSTOR 3178545. PMID 16856271.
  2. ^ Joannou, Maroula (2000), "From The Golden Notebook", in Joannou, Maroula (ed.), Contemporary women's writing: from "The Golden Notebook" to "The Color Purple", Manchester, UK / New York, US: Manchester University Press, p. 40, ISBN 9780719053399. Preview.
  3. ^ Echols, Alice (1989), "Appendix C: a guide to women's liberation groups (The Feminists)", in Echols, Alice (ed.), Daring to be bad: radical feminism in America 1967-1975, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, p. 388, ISBN 9780816617876. Preview.