Gloria Steinem

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This New York Times bestseller from the legendary feminist featured in the film The Two Glorias is as relevant today as when it was first published. Spanning two decades-from the early sixties to the early eighties-the pieces in Gloria Steinem's diverse, stimulating, and often prescient first collection dare to ask how our world might change for the better if we each behaved "as if everyone mattered." An early assignment as a "girl reporter," going undercover as a Bunny in Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club, becomes an eye-opening exposé of appalling work conditions and sexual harassment. As Steinem observed, "I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner." In addition to "I Was a Playboy Bunny," the essays in this collection challenge the practices and preconceptions that marginalize, exclude, exploit, and victimize women. Steinem understands that the political is always personal, and vice versa, and as such her writings range from the polemical-"Erotica vs. Pornography" and "The Politics of Food"-to the deeply personal-"Ruth's Song," a moving tribute to her mentally ill mother-to sharp satire like "If Men Could Menstruate." One of the first to address topics such as female genital mutilation and transgenderism, Steinem has truly earned the right to be called a feminist pioneer, and this volume is both a testament to her legacy in the fight for equality and an entertaining, thought-provoking journey through the lives of modern women. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gloria Steinem including rare images from the author's personal collection.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781453250181
• Artikelnr.: 37900966

Autorenporträt

Gloria Steinem (b. 1934) is an American feminist, activist, writer, and editor who has shaped debates on gender, politics, and art since the 1960s. Steinem was born in Toledo, Ohio. Cofounder of Ms. Magazine and a founding contributor of New York magazine, Steinem has also published numerous bestselling nonfiction titles. Through activism, lectures, constant traveling as an organizer, and appearances in the media over time, Steinem has worked to address inequalities based on sex, race, sexuality, class, and hierarchy. She lives in New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Emma Watson
Introduction
LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE
Life Between the Lines
I Was a Playboy Bunny
Campaigning
Sisterhood
College Reunion
Ruth's Song (Because She Could Not Sing It)
OTHER BASIC DISCOVERIES
Words and Change
In Praise of Women's Bodies
The Importance of Work
The Time Factor
The Politics of Food
Networking
Transsexualism
Why Young Women Are More Conservative
Erotica vs. Pornography
FIVE WOMEN
Marilyn Monroe: The Woman Who Died Too Soon
Patricia Nixon Flying
The Real Linda Lovelace
Jackie Reconsidered
Alice Walker: Do You Know This Woman? She Knows You
TRANSFORMING POLITICS
Houston and History
The International Crime of Genital Mutilation
Rx Fantasies: For Temporary Relief of Pain Due to Injustice
If Hitler Were Alive, Whose Side Would He Be On?
Night Thoughts of a Media Watcher
If Men Could Menstruate
Far from the Opposite Shore
Index