Abby Rockefeller

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Abby Rockefeller, born 1943, is a member of the Rockefeller family.

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[edit] Biography

Abby Rockefeller (born 1943) is the eldest and most rebellious daughter of David Rockefeller, Sr.. She was drawn to Marxism and was an ardent admirer of Fidel Castro and a late 1960s/early 1970s radical feminist[1] who belonged to the organization Female Liberation, later forming a splinter group called Cell 16.[2] An environmentalist and ecologist, she was an active supporter of the women's liberation movement.

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  1. ^ Echols, Alice, Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America: 1967–1975 (Minneapolis, Minn.: Univ. of Minn. Press, 1989 (ISBN 0-8166-1787-2)), pp. 158 (& perhaps n. 106), 163 & nn. 132–133, & 211 & n. 37 (author then visiting asst. prof. history, Univ. of Ariz. at Tucson).
  2. ^ Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections.


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