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Dana Densmore, co-director and chief editor of Green Lion Press, is an independent scholar with experience in teaching, publishing, and computer technology.

She was a leading theorist for the emerging feminist movement and published the first journal of feminist theory beginning in August 1968 and running through 1973.

Career
Dana Densmore has been active in the women’s movement in Boston since June 1968. She was a member of Cell 16, which put out A Journal of Female Liberation (No More Fun and Games, The Female State), proclaiming that dissemination of ideas and analysis is the most critical need in making the feminist revolution.

After earning her BA at St. John's College in Annapolis in 1965, she worked as a systems programmer at MIT for the Apollo Project and the Space Shuttle. She left MIT in 1977 to work in industry, eventually becoming senior product planner for Nixdorf Computer Corporation.

She is an advocate of self-defense. She has actively trained in martial arts since 1968 and has run her own schools in several cities since 1974. She organized the first continental conference for teachers of women's martial arts and self defense in 1975 and founded, edited, and published a magazine for that field.

She is a long-time board member of The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press, and for two years was Senior Editor and Research Director for that organization in Washington, DC.

In 1982 she retired from her computer career and moved to New Mexico, where she continued work on teaching, research, and writing projects she had begun in Boston.

Publications
"1968, A Year of Exhilaration," Dana Densmore, The Columbia Documentary History of American Women Since 1941, ed. Harriet Sigerman.

Sex Roles and Female Oppression, a collection of articles. [New England Free Press, 1971.]

"Independence from the Sexual Revolution," Radical Feminism, Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, Anita Rapone, eds. [Quadrangle, 1973]

"A Radical Feminist Analysis of Mass Media," Donna Allen & Dana Densmore, 1977.