THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Elizabeth Fisher

1924 – January 1, 1982

“The changes in our language itself indicate the pervasive nature of the movement. ‘Ms., person, MCP, sexist’ are all words now in common use.” -Elizabeth Fisher, editor of Aphra, October 1975.

Author, editor, educator. Founder of Aphra, the first feminist literary journal. Author of Women’s Creation: Sexual Evolution and the Shaping of Society, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1979.