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Gloria Steinem

Journalist and activist who led second-wave feminism.

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Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem is an American journalist and activist who became a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the late 1960s and early 1970s.[1] She co-founded Ms. magazine in 1972 and the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971.[2][3]

Key facts and history

Her mother was of German and Scottish descent, and her father was Jewish.[4] Steinem attended Smith College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1956.[5][6] She spent two years in India as a Chester Bowles Asian Fellow in the late 1950s.[7][6] She co-founded Ms. magazine in 1972, which sold 300,000 test copies in eight days.[3][8]

What the research sources say

Steinem told the Guardian in 2005 that she wanted to "apologise for not getting out the most destructive president we've ever had"[9] The Ms. magazine history notes that its preview issue included "We Have Had Abortions," a petition signed by 53 prominent women.[8]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Gloria Steinem" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Gloria Steinem Fast Facts", CNN, September 6, 2014; "Gloria Steinem", historynet.com; "Gloria Steinem", 2004; Ishak, "How Gloria Steinem Went From Going Undercover At Playboy To Being The World's Most Famous Feminist", All That's Interesting, 2020-05-09 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Gloria Steinem" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Gloria Steinem", 2004; Steinem, "Gloria Steinem, After Black Power, Women's Liberation", New York Magazine, April 7, 1969; "Gloria Steinem, Feminist Pioneer, Leader for Women's Rights and Equality", The Connecticut Forum (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Gloria Steinem" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Mclellan, "Clay Felker, 82; editor of New York magazine led New Journalism charge", Los Angeles Times, July 2, 2008; "The Eighties, Gloria Steinem", Colored Reflections; "Ms. Magazine History", Msmagazine.com, December 31, 2001; "Ms. Magazine History", Msmagazine.com, December 31, 2001; Woman Alive! Collection, 1974–1977: A Finding Aid. MC 421. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Accessed May 18, 2020.; "Ms. Magazine History", Msmagazine.com, December 31, 2001 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Gloria Steinem" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Heilbrun, "Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem", Random House Publishing, 2011; Finding Your Roots, February 23, 2016, PBS.; Finding Your Roots, February 23, 2016, PBS.; "Ancestry of Gloria Steinem", Wargs.com; "Gloria Steinem's Interactive Family Tree | Finding Your Roots", PBS, February 25, 2016; Pogrebin, "Gloria Steinem", Jewish Women's Archive, March 20, 2009; Pogrebin, "Gloria Steinem", Jewish Women's Archive, March 20, 2009 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Gloria Steinem" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Classmates remember Steinem's Toledo days", Toledo Free Press; "Gloria Steinem class of 1952", Western High School; "Gloria Steinem", Biography.com; "The Official Website of Author and Activist Gloria Steinem – About", Gloriasteinem.com (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. "The Official Website of Author and Activist Gloria Steinem – About", Gloriasteinem.com. facts only, no text reused. gloriasteinem.com
  7. Wikipedia, "Gloria Steinem" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "C.I.A. Subsidized Festival Trips; Hundreds of Students Were Sent to World Gatherings", The New York Times, February 21, 1967; "Gloria Steinem Interview", CBC Radio, March 6, 2016; Groer, "In India, Gloria Steinem returns to the roots of her activism", The Washington Post, January 20, 2014; "C.I.A. Subsidized Festival Trips; Hundreds of Students Were Sent to World Gatherings", The New York Times, February 21, 1967; "C.I.A. Subsidized Festival Trips; Hundreds of Students Were Sent to World Gatherings", The New York Times, February 21, 196 en.wikipedia.org
  8. "Ms. Magazine History", Msmagazine.com, December 31, 2001. facts only, no text reused. msmagazine.com
  9. Denes, "'Feminism? It's hardly begun'", The Guardian, January 17, 2005. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Gloria Steinem (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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