Gloria Steinem

Moving Beyond Words

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Essays from the New York Times–bestselling author who inspired the film The Glorias, a “woman who has told the truth about her life and ours” (Los Angeles Times).
With cool humor and rich intellect, Gloria Steinem strips bare our social constructions of gender and race, explaining just how limiting these invented cultural identities can be.
In the first of six sections, Steinem imagines how our understanding of human psychology would be different in a witty reversal: What if Freud had been a woman who inflicted biological inferiority on men (think “womb envy”)? In other essays, she presents positive examples of people who turn gendered stereotypes on their heads, from a female bodybuilder to Mahatma Gandhi, whose followers absorbed his wisdom that change starts at the bottom. And in some of the most moving pieces, Steinem reveals some of her own complicated history as a writer, woman, and citizen of the world.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gloria Steinem including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
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511 printed pages
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Suggested reading:
    Christine Delphy and Diana Leonard, Familiar Exploitation (Cambridge, England: Blackwell/Polity Press, 1992).

    Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Zed Books, 1986).

    Joni Seager, Earth Follies (New York: Routledge, 1993).

    Vandana Shiva, Staying Alive (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Zed Books, 1989).

    Marilyn Waring, If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics (New York: Harper & Row, 1988).
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    37. Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, vol. I (New York: Basic Books, 1953), pp. 17–18.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    36. All words in the paragraph are Freud’s own except “… women … herself …” and “… feminine … genital deficiency.” Sigmund Freud, “Femininity,” Freud on Women, p. 360.

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