She expressed her feminist views in such essays as “After Black Power, Women’s Liberation.” Steinem became more engaged in the women’s movement after reporting on an abortion hearing given by the radical feminist group known as the Redstockings. In the late 1960s, she helped create New York magazine, and wrote a column on politics for the publication. Steinem went undercover for the piece, working as a waitress, or a scantily clad “bunny” as they called them, at the club. One of her most famous articles from the time was a 1963 expose on New York City’s Playboy Club for Show magazine. She first worked for Independent Research Service and then established a career for herself as a freelance writer. Pioneering FeministĪfter finishing her degree in 1956, Steinem received a fellowship to study in India. I didn’t want to end up taking care of someone else,” she later told People magazine. “In the 1950s, once you married you became what your husband was, so it seemed like the last choice you’d ever have I’d already been the very small parent of a very big child my mother.
It was clear early on that she did not want to follow the most common life path for women in those days marriage and motherhood. At Smith College, she studied government, a non-traditional choice for a woman at that time. Steinem spent six years living with her mother in a rundown home in Toledo before leaving to go to college. With all this traveling, Steinem did not attend school on a regular basis until she was 11.Īround this time, Steinem’s parents divorced and she ended up caring for her mother, Ruth, who suffered from mental illness. She had an unusual upbringing, spending part of the year in Michigan and the winters in Florida or California. Since the late 1960s, Gloria Steinem has been an outspoken champion of women’s rights. After all, human beings do what we see, not what we’re told.Born on March 25, 1934, in Toledo, Ohio. Steinem was born and raised in Toledo, where, she writes, “long before becoming a writer, I had been a semiprofessional dancer dreaming of tap dancing my way out…” In the preface for the 1995 edition of the book, Steinem writes: “Only personal stories, plus parallels with systems already recognized as political…can help us begin to see the world as if everyone mattered. Pornography,” “I Was a Playboy Bunny,” “If Hitler Were Alive, Whose Side Would He Be On?” and “Ruth’s Song (Because She Could Not Sing It).” Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions(1983) collects many of Steinem’s best-known essays including “If Men Could Menstruate,” “Erotica vs. She has worked as a journalist for New York Magazine and co-founded the feminist magazine Ms. Gloria Steinem is a political and social activist and organizer who was a leader of the second-wave feminist movement in the 1960’s and 70’s.
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