Gloria Steinem
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Gloria Steinem's insightful and uniquely sensitive account of Hollywood's brightest star from the Golden Age. Few books have altered the perception of a celebrity as much as Marilyn. Gloria Steinem reveals that behind the familiar sex symbol lay a tortured spirit with powerful charisma, intelligence, and complexity. The book delves into a topic many other writers have ignored - that of Norma Jeane, the young girl who grew up with an unstable mother,...
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A powerful and moving treatise on the surprises of aging from an influential feminist writer and activist who thinks beyond stereotypes The older I get, the more intensely I feel about the world around me. Gloria Steinem has been an eloquent and outspoken voice for women's rights and equality for more than four decades. In Doing Sixty & Seventy she addresses an essential concern of people everywhere-and especially of women: the issue of aging. Whereas...
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Steinem's career-spanning collection of essays-each one a book in itself-re-imagine everything from the masculinization of wealth to Freudian thought and aging With cool humor and rich intellect, Gloria Steinem strips bare our social constructions of gender and race, explaining just how limiting these invented cultural identities can be. In the first of six sections, Steinem imagines how our understanding of human psychology would be different...
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This talk by Gloria Steinem - timely, timeless, and recommended for all genders - is a never before released recording that took place in 1993 in Salem, Massachusetts, in concurrence with the 300th anniversary of The Salem Witch Trials. In this incredibly enlightening and motivational audio program, Steinem puts into social and historical context the role of society in the treatment and mistreatment of women. Excerpt from recording: As you can tell...
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"Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist. In 1972, she co-founded Ms. Magazine, and remained one of its editors for fifteen years. She continues to serve as a consulting editor for Ms. and was instrumental in the magazine's recent move to join and be published by the Feminist Majority Foundation. In 1968, Steinem had helped to found New York magazine, where she was a political columnist and wrote feature articles. Her books...
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[2015]
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"Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds were planted: Steinem would spend much of her life on the road, as a journalist, organizer, activist, and speaker. In vivid stories that span an entire career, Steinem writes about her time on the campaign trail, from Bobby Kennedy to Hillary Clinton; her early exposure...
9) The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off: thoughts on life, love, and rebellion
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[2019]
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"For decades -- and especially now in these times of crisis -- people around the world have found guidance, humor, and unity in Gloria Steinem's gift for creating quotes that inspire action and create hope. From her early days as a journalist and feminist activist, up to today, Steinem's words have helped generations to empower themselves and work together. Gloria sees quotes as 'the poetry of everyday life,' so she also has included a few favorites...
11) Marilyn
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[1986]
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Using the last photographs taken before Marilyn Monroe's death, Gloria Steinem completes the project the actress and the photographer were working on: a book to "set the record straight."
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"Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child Tiffany Dufu struggled to accomplish everything she thought she needed to in order to succeed. Like so many driven and talented women who have been brought up to believe that to have it all, they must do it all, Dufu began to feel that achieving her career and personal goals was an impossibility. Eventually, she discovered the solution: letting go. In [this book], Dufu recounts...
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A new edition of the 1988 classic text that exposed the extreme prevalence of rape in America, coining the term acquaintance rape and establishing the disturbing statistics on sexual assault that still hold just as true today-now featuring an original preface from Gloria Steinem, a new introduction by Salamishah Tillet, an updated afterword by Mary P. Koss, PH.D., as well as an updated resources section. In 1988, Robin Warshaw wrote I Never Called...
16) Femme
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A celebration of women around the world actively transforming and healing our global society.
17) Periodical
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Periodical explores the marvel and mystery of the menstrual cycle, from first period to last. Lina Lyte Plioplyte's innovative documentary uncovers shocking truths, challenges taboos, and celebrates the end of centuries of societal-enforced stigma.
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2017
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A collection of essays celebrating the influential former first lady, by an array of acclaimed contributors and with a foreword by Lena DunhamMichelle Obamas legacy transcends categorization. Mrs. Obama was not only our first black first lady; she was President Obamas equal partner in marriage and parenthood and a tireless advocate for womens rights, education, healthy eating, and exercise. Her genre-busting personal style encouraged others to speak,...
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Finding Your Roots volume 8
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Discover how Neil Patrick Harris, Gloria Steinem and Sandra Cisneros are connected to pioneers who broke new ground and paved the way for their modern day descendants to continue shaping our culture.
20) RBG
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At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. Explore her unique and unknown personal journey of her rise to the nation's highest court.