Co-founded by Roxanne Dunbar and Dana Densmore in 1968, Cell 16 included early members Betsy Warrior, Abby Rockefeller and Jayne West.

[2][3] The organization had a journal titled No More Fun and Games, which exerted a strong influence over the development of the second wave of feminism.

[4] In the summer of 1968, Roxanne Dunbar placed an advertisement in a Boston, Massachusetts, underground newspaper calling for a "Female Liberation Front".

The original membership also included Hillary Langhorst, Sandy Bernard, Dana Densmore (the daughter of Donna Allen),[5] Betsy Warrior, Ellen O'Donnell, Jayne West, Mary Ann Weathers, Maureen Maynes, Gail Murray, and Abby Rockefeller.

[10][11] Cultural historian Alice Echols cites Cell 16 as an example of feminist heterosexual separatism, as the group never advocated lesbianism as a political strategy.