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  Gloria Steinem - Salon.com
A Glamocracy blogger tells Gloria Steinem that "the battles of the 1960s are over."
While older feminists were awestruck at meeting Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan, some of the young ones probably had no idea who they were.
Gloria Steinem, Kweisi Mfume, Phyllis Schlafly and other political observers applaud and mourn the departure of Jesse Helms.
dir.salon.com /topics/gloria_steinem   (473 words)

  
  Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem was born on March 25, 1934, in Toledo, Ohio.
When Steinem was young, she and her family spent summers at their resort in Clark Lake, Michigan, and traveled the country in a dome-topped trailer the remainder of the year as Leo bought and sold antiques from Florida to California.
Steinem herself was active in the National Democratic Party Convention in Miami that year, fighting for an abortion plank in the party platform and challenging the seating of delegations that included mostly white males.
www.edwardsly.com /steinem.htm   (1442 words)

  
 CIA FemiNazi Gloria Steinem Protests Guanatanamo
Gitmo is a steam valve and Gloria Steinem, who was paid by the CIA to promote feminism, is the puppet at the front of the stage.
NEW YORK - Feminist author Gloria Steinem on Monday joined about 200 protesters to demand the closure of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, saying holding prisoners indefinitely without charging them violates the values upon which the United States was founded.
Steinem compared Guantanamo to the kind of autocratic rule early colonists were trying to flee.
www.infowars.com /articles/us/steinem_protests_gitmo.htm   (227 words)

  
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However, by the time Gloria Steinem came into the world her mother had left her journalism career, been hospitalized for a nervous breakdown, and was wracked by bouts of depression, delusion and fear (Daffron 24).
Steinem was simply searching for and interesting story for her column, rather than a radical cause, when she attended a meeting of the New York liberation group called the Redstockings, which planned to protest the abortion hearings of 1968 in Albany, New York.
Gloria Steinem also mentioned that she does some of her best work under a tight deadline, she described herself as "one of those many writers who is basically lazy and doesn't function necessarily without a specific project or a real deadline…" She also commented, "…I find it enormously difficult to get started.
www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/steinem_gloria_oh.htm   (3939 words)

  
 Gloria Steinem Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
The feminist and journalist Gloria Steinem (born 1934) was active in many liberal causes beginning in the mid-1950s and was the first editor of Ms.
Steinem, who had for over 30 years rejected the idea of marriage and who coined the line "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" was able at the age of 66 to justify marriage as a form of rebellion.
Benfer suggested that there was in Steinem's act an implicit sense of having earned the right to marry by having rejected traditional gender roles when she was younger, and by having turned her decision into a rebellious, personal choice after years of having heaped scorn upon the institution.
www.bookrags.com /biography/gloria-steinem   (1515 words)

  
 Gloria Steinem - MSN Encarta
Gloria Steinem, (1934-), American writer and political activist, a leading figure in the women's rights movement.
From that time, Steinem became a role model for young women, espousing her belief that when women are liberated, men will become whole people as well.
Steinem's Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem (1992) examined her feelings about herself within the context of the women's movement.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761559495   (275 words)

  
 Gloria Steinem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gloria Marie Steinem was born in Toledo, Ohio.
Steinem cofounded the Coalition of Labor Union Women in 1974, and participated in the National Conference of Women in Houston, Texas in 1977.
Steinem and Bale were married for only three years before he died of brain lymphoma on December 30, 2003, at age 62.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gloria_Steinem   (716 words)

  
 Heroism Project | 1970s | Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem's tireless efforts to bring women, people of color and other socially disadvantaged groups social justice have touched the hearts of many Americans.
Steinem is best known for her advocacy on behalf of women through her outspoken writings and advocacy.
Steinem was born on March 25, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio to an emotionally disturbed mother and a father who was constantly traveling the country in search of work.
www.heroism.org /class/1970/steinem.html   (555 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: What Feminism Looks Like by Anthony Gancarski
Steinem sees single parenthood as preferable for children than two-parent families; men are vestigial, to be tolerated only if they play along with her ideological games.
Yet the events of Steinem’s life suggest that she was programmed towards such a position by the specter of her insufficient mother, absent father, and the institutions who succored the hyper-intelligent lass in the vacuum left by her parents.
Perhaps Steinem’s ability to paint herself as a victim of her mother’s incapacity and her father’s absence was what made it possible for her to run in fast circles, beginning with her matriculation at Smith College in 1952 [where she joined her sister].
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13543   (1551 words)

  
 WorkingForChange-BuzzFlash interview: Gloria Steinem   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gloria Steinem: I think that that’s hypocritical because there are right-wing women who are pursuing their professional career and not staying home.
Gloria Steinem: Well, first of all, we could spend our whole time talking about the changes in the Bible from the Gnostic Gospels, in which Jesus is recorded as saying quite different things.
Gloria Steinem: Well, I suppose that Karl Rove and Bush and company are doing this at all is some tribute to the forcefulness and importance of the gender gap and of the fl vote.
www.workingforchange.com /ARTICLE.CFM?ITEMID=16389   (2619 words)

  
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Gloria Steinem was born in Toledo, Ohio on March 25, 1934; she spent the early part of her life on the East Side of that city, which she once referred to as a pathologically violent and racist place where white citizens actively looked for fls to assault.
Steinem entered Smith College in 1952; her political sympathies were made clear when she worked for Adlai Stevenson's campaign for the presidency that same year.
Steinem's influence waned in the 1980s, as the Reagan Revolution swept America and the ERA was defeated.
www.discoverthenetworks.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1813   (707 words)

  
 Steinem, Gloria - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Steinem gained prominence as a spokeswoman for women's rights in articles, lectures, and television appearances.
Gloria Steinem continues to be leading voice in feminist movement.
Gloria Steinem and Ellie Smeal announced in the Spring 2002 issue of MS.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-steinem.html   (377 words)

  
 Gloria Steinem   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gloria Steinem is a writer and a feminist leader.
Gloria was born on March 25, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio.
Gloria Steinem is an amazing woman who changed the lives of many young women who followed her.
www2.lhric.org /pocantico/womenenc/steinem.htm   (524 words)

  
 Astrology Software for Research - Gloria Steinem - astrology chart
Steinem had read an article in Life magazine and knew she didn't want her mother in that type of facility, opting to stay and care for her in the family home.
Gloria received a scholarship and Ruth sold the house to provide the rest of her tuition for Smith College where she majored in government.
Steinem was one of the founders of the Women's Political Caucus in 1971.
www.astrodatabank.com /NM/SteinemGloria.htm   (1296 words)

  
 Gloria Steinem and the CIA
Gloria Steinem, a 30-year-old graduate of Smith College, said the C.I.A. has been a major source of funds for the foundation, the Independence [sic -- Independent] Research Service, since its formation in 1958.
Miss Steinem said she had talked to some former officers of the National Student Association, who told her C.I.A. money might be available to finance American participation in the seventh postwar festival scheduled for Vienna in the summer of 1959.
McCloy's connection to Steinem went beyond contributing an article to the propaganda operation of which she was an editor in Vienna.
www.namebase.org /steinem.html   (1644 words)

  
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Gloria: I just was writing a little column because the New York Times has this syndicate, and they asked me to do gay marriage and I thought I should because otherwise an author might, sort of, demonize it, as if that was the reason we lost the election which isn't true.
Gloria: Yeah, well then, now she knows that she's not crazy, the system is crazy, which is a really important thing because it literally saves our sanity.
Gloria: Lyndon Johnson was probably not wrong when he said, when the Civil Rights act of 1964 passed, he said "We've just lost the south for the Democrats for decades and decades to come" and he was right.
www.thef-wordzine.com /harpies_steinem505.html   (3123 words)

  
 ashgroveaudiobook.com - Gloria Steinem   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Steinem was born on March 25, 1934, in Toledo, Ohio.
There are many things Gloria Steinem will be remembered for, such as being a writer, feminist editor, speaker, political activist, and, of course, leading figure in the women's rights movement.
She will be remembered by many and go down in history as an extraordinary woman who accomplished many tasks others would never dream of, but especially as a role model to people everywhere.
www.ashgroveaudiobook.com /grove/info_kids_steinem.html   (638 words)

  
 CNN.com - Gloria Steinem: Restoring women's rights in Afghanistan - December 27, 2001
Gloria Steinem is a writer and a champion of women's issues, including equal rights, equal pay, and abortion.
STEINEM: RAWA, which is one of many women's organizations in Afghanistan, is very focused on reconstruction with a full role for women, and on self-determination for women.
STEINEM: Remember that women in Afghanistan had equal rights in the Constitution of the '60s and were doctors, lawyers, and teachers.
archives.cnn.com /2001/COMMUNITY/12/27/steinem.cnna   (1487 words)

  
 CNN.com - Feminist icon Gloria Steinem first-time bride at 66 - September 5, 2000
STILWELL, Oklahoma (AP) -- Gloria Steinem, the feminist icon who once dismissed marriage as an institution that destroys relationships, is a first-time bride at the age of 66.
For years, Steinem said the chances of her ever marrying were slim.
Steinem and Bale, the father of "Shaft" and "American Psycho" actor Christian Bale, met in October 1999 at a Voters for Choice benefit in Los Angeles, Vandenberg said.
archives.cnn.com /2000/US/09/05/steinem.marriage.ap   (541 words)

  
 Alas, a blog » Blog Archive » Diotima on Gloria Steinem
When Steinem referred to the withdrawal of funding for family planning and AIDS prevention, I took that as a reference to the way pro-lifers and the Bush administration blocked $34 million earmarked for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA for short - yes, I know the initials don’t match up, complain to the UN).
Gloria Steinem is a type of leader that the IWF has never had.
Sara thinks that Steinem should embarrass feminists because she says something silly in an interview (and I admit, Steinem’s quasi-Marxist interpretation of the pro-life movement was cringeworthy).
www.amptoons.com /blog/archives/2004/02/13/diotima-on-gloria-steinem   (3791 words)

  
 Gloria Steinem   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist.
Steinem helped to found the Women's Action Alliance, a pioneering national information center that specialized in nonsexist, multiracial children's education, and the National Women's Political Caucus, a group that continues to work to advance the numbers of pro-equality women in elected and appointed office at a national and state level.
Steinem graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College in 1956, and then spent two years in India on a Chester Bowles Fellowship.
www.soapboxinc.com /bio_steinem.html   (714 words)

  
 GLORIA STEINEM
Gloria Steinem travels widely as a feminist activist, organizer, writer and lecturer.
She is currently at work on Road to the Heart: America As if Everyone Mattered, a book about her more than thirty years on the road as a feminist organizer; and with the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College on a project to document the grassroots origins of the U.S. women's movement.
Gloria Steinem is on the Advisory Board of Feminist.com.
www.feminist.com /gloriasteinem   (409 words)

  
 Steinem Blames White Male Dominance for Church Sex Scandal, 9-11   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gloria Steinem, who has led the feminist movement for decades, lashed out this weekend at the Catholic Church and blamed the pedophile scandal on its male-dominated hierarchy — a structure she also blamed for creating Adolf Hitler.
Steinem also claimed that pedophile priests were victims, just as the children they had abused, of the male-dominated church hierarchy.
Steinem also said that almost all serial murderers are male and usually Caucasian and come from the middle class.
www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2002/3/24/232249.shtml   (429 words)

  
 No Slowdown For Gloria Steinem, Feminist Leader, 71, Sees Progress – And Work To Be Done - CBS News
Steinem is still a major draw at high schools and college campuses, where most in the young audience only know her from history books.
Many years later, Steinem's experiences at the Playboy Club were the basis of a 1984 movie, "A Bunny’s Tale," starring Kirstie Alley as Steinem.
Steinem says the event that turned her into an activist was an abortion hearing she covered for New York Magazine.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/01/22/sunday/main1227391.shtml   (935 words)

  
 [CTRL] Inside The CIA with Gloria Steinem
But they also laid the blame on Steinem and her associates for using "libel" claims to stifle debate within the women's movement and to suppress embarrassing information about themselves.
Steinem was the founder and director of one of those groups, Independent Research Service, for which she had solicited and obtained CIA money to carry out covert operations at Communist youth festivals in Vienna and Helsinki in 1959 and 1952.
I tried to reach Gloria Steinem to get her side of all this, but she was in meetings, out of the office, out to lunch, on her way to Washington, out making ad presentations, and on the other phone whenever I called.
www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg02217.html   (2955 words)

  
 Gloria Steinem News
Using body language suggestive of Gloria Steinem squaring off with Larry Flynt, presumed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took her first meeting with President Bush.
Gloria Steinem and Cecile Richards to Mobilize Pro-Choice Voters in Ohio
Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda went on the Colbert Report to publicize their Greenstone Media radio network.
www.topix.net /who/gloria-steinem   (590 words)

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