Gloria Steinem : a life in American history / William H. Pruden III.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pruden, William H., III, author.

Series:

Women making history (ABC-Clio Information Services)

Women making history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Steinem, Gloria.

Feminists--United States--Biography.

Feminists.

Women journalists--United States--Biography.

Women journalists.

Women political activists--United States--Biography.

Women political activists.

United States--Social conditions--1945-.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 233 pages).

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2024.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2021]

Summary:

"Examines the life of an improbable but undisputed leader of the Second Wave Feminist Movement--Gloria Steinem. A book in ABC-CLIO's Women Making History series, the book chronicles Steinem's life against a backdrop of the social, political, and cultural change that swept the nation and of which she was both a catalyst and a reflection. The goal of this book is to examine the life of activist and journalist Gloria Steinem and the changing America in which she lived. It doing so it seeks to demonstrate how those changes came about and the role she played in shifting American gender values"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Roots of Rebellion? Young Gloria and Challenges on the Home Front

An Inquiring Mind

Journalist, Activist, and Feminist

To the Barricades

The Activist Life

Ms. Magazine

The Personal Is Political

The Good Fight in a Conservative Age

An Eye on the Future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9798400658082

9798216090878

9781440872716

1440872716

OCLC:

1245247807