Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
A bestselling first collection of humorous and insightful essays by a luminary of the women’s liberation movementThese essays from Gloria Steinem’s first three decades of work offer a portrait of a woman who was not only one of the savviest leaders of the women’s liberation movement, but also a...
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A bestselling first collection of humorous and insightful essays by a luminary of the women’s liberation movementThese essays from Gloria Steinem’s first three decades of work offer a portrait of a woman who was not only one of the savviest leaders of the women’s liberation movement, but also a profoundly humane thinker with a wide-ranging intellect and irresistible wit. In “If Men Could Menstruate,” Steinem engages readers in a flight of imagination as incisive as it is hilarious. She offers first-person journalism in her underground exposé “I Was a Playboy Bunny,” provides heartbreaking memoir in the story of her mother’s struggles in “Ruth’s Song,” and stakes important positions in feminist theory in “Erotica vs. Pornography.” This is Steinem at her most provocative—and most compassionate.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B007RJA6WO
Publish date: May 15th 2012
Publisher: Open Road Media
Pages no: 414
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Feminism,
Politics,
Womens,
Gender,
Gender Studies
I suppose some of these essays are rather dated. And I am not entirely convinced that I buy some of the arguments in the Pornography essay. Steinman might be correct in her statements about the effects of porn, and I agree with her definitions of both porn and erotica, I just wish she had statisti...
Steinem is such a great proponent of feminism because she writes well, clearly and simply, which is much harder to do than writing with an obvious style.