14 Facts About Anne Koedt

Anne Koedt was connected to the group New York Radical Women and was a founding member of New York Radical Feminists.

Anne Koedt's parents had been members of the Danish resistance during World War II, harboring Jews in their basement until the refugees could be smuggled to Sweden.

Anne Koedt's father was an architect and photographer who forged passports for leaders of the Danish resistance.

Anne Koedt's mother lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for over 60 years.

In September 2011, Anne Koedt married Ellen Levine, her partner for 40 years.

Anne Koedt was among the oldest residents of Teton County.

Anne Koedt was a founding member of the New York Radical Women, an early feminist group begun in fall, 1967 which pioneered women's liberation through activism, such as disrupting the 1968 Miss America pageant, writing and publishing feminist work, and connecting personal issues to political oppression in the form of small-group consciousness-raising.

In 1969, Anne Koedt left the Feminists to form the New York Radical Feminists with Shulamith Firestone.

In 1968, Anne Koedt published her most influential work, "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" in a radical-feminist journal from New York Radical Women's members, titled Notes from the First Year.

On February 17,1968, Anne Koedt delivered a speech regarding women's liberation and the role that radical women must play in the female revolution in order to change the overall fundamental concept of women.

Anne Koedt refers to women's issues and women's liberation as a social and political issue that has many similarities to the black power struggle.

Anne Koedt's writings included The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm and "Women and the Radical Movement," the speech she gave at the Free University in New York City on February 17,1968.

Anne Koedt became the editor of Notes From the Third Year replacing Shulamith Firestone in 1972.

In 1978, Anne Koedt became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press.