How To Be an Anti-Feminist Feminist Nov 20, 2009
A few weeks ago or longer, Meet the Press showed a clip from 1972 of Gloria Steinem defending feminism. Being a 30-something, I'm only entitled to the results of feminism but admittedly I'm not well versed in the history. (Slate)
Life Coach for Carrie Nov 18, 2009
A world, I might add, that has been denounced as sexist by mostly impassioned liberal women (ask Gloria Steinem what its like to be pilloried). Honestly, Carrie, I cant help but think you won in a very significant way. (Fox News)
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In Newsmax's special report, writer S.E. Cupp says that the days of bra-burning, feminist militancy from acolytes of Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem who defined womanhood as simply anti-male, are gone ... Gloria Steinem's "ultimate myth". (Newsmax)
Ariel Levy: Why is feminism still so divisive? Nov 9, 2009
Post, Esther Peterson, Restless (1997), Memories, Cindy McCain, Billie Jean King, Conservatives, Betty Friedan, Miss America Pageant, Republican Party, Susan Brownmiller, NOW (National Organization for Women), Bob McDonnell, Gloria Steinem, Social Movements, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Shriver Report, Identity Politics, Traditional Family, Comprehensive Child Development Act, Walter Mondale, (Pres. Richard Nixon" /> Books Lift and Separate Why is feminism still so divisive? by 00004000 November... (New Yorker)
Change your name after marriage? Nov 6, 2009
Change your name after marriage -- why. Change your name after marriage -- why. (CNN)
Local Earhart author is flying high (2) Oct 29, 2009
Her achievements will stand out more strongly," she added.Her mother provided much of the inspiration for Butler s interest in aviation, and for the book itself.Butler s mother was a pilot in the 1930s, the author recalled, an unusual avocation for women in that period, who eventually put her skill to an important use. In 1942, when German subs were shooting up tankers and ships off our eastern coast, we didn t have enough planes, so the Civil Air Patrol people who had their own planes were... (Lake Wales News, FL)
NBCs look at women in America Oct 16, 2009
Slideshow: The first lady of California pays tribute to the strength and tenacity of activists like Gloria Steinem and trailblazers like Oprah Winfrey. theGrio. (MSNBC -- Health)
Feminism Ruined Womens' Lives? Not Really Oct 15, 2009
But it's a little too soon to blame Gloria Steinem for our dependence on SSRIs ... I WAS BORN IN 1951 AND WAS PART OF THE MOVEMENT AS A YOUNG WOMAN IN THE 70'S. MY MOTHER OFTEN COMMENTED ON HOW MUCH BETTER MY LIFE WAS THAN HER GENERATION AND I ALWAYS FELT I HAD MORE CHOICES THAN THE GENERATIONS BEFORE ME. I WAS AS HAPPY AS ANYONE COULD BE AND I NEVER FELT LIMITED. I HAD FRIENDS IN HIGH SCHOOL WHOSE MOTHERS HAD BEEN DIVORCED AND THEY EITHER HAD TO WAITRESS, CARHOP, BECOME A NURSE OR A TEACHER AND... (CBS News)
Hollywood, Media Misfire on Polanski and Letterman Oct 9, 2009
Feminist Gloria Steinem actually wrote that assuming the allegation true, this was not harassment or assault. "President Clinton," Steinem said, "took 'no' for an answer.". (Human Events Online)
Reliving the world of 'Ally McBeal' Oct 8, 2009
Flockhart appeared on the cover of Time magazine -- next to Susan B. Anthony, Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem -- with the headline "Is Feminism Dead?" The show also reignited interest in R&B veteran Barry White, with Cage, known as "the Biscuit," lip-synching his music. Shepard, best known for the "McBeal" theme song "Searchin' My Soul," credits the show with launching her musical career. (CNN)
Ron Paul and Gloria Steinem, Unite! Oct 5, 2009
S. E. Cupp : Ron Paul and Gloria Steinem, Unite ... Monday, October 05, 2009 Ron Paul and Gloria Steinem, Unite ... There are broader implications here that should pique the interest of folks as disparate as Ron Paul, the Republican Congressman from Texas, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Mark Steyn, Gloria Steinem, John Stossel, and the National Organization for Women, all of whom would likely cringe to know I had just grouped them together in a single paragraph. (Townhall.com)
What a deal! Sep 25, 2009
Sadly, in the 1960s, Dr. Spock, Gloria Steinem and drugs gave birth to the polarization of this country. We need to leave the liberals to their own devices and ultimate demise. (Longview Daily News, WA)
What's happening to women's happiness? Sep 21, 2009
And Gloria Steinem had just published the essay in New York Magazine that clearly separated the modern Women's Movement from other oppressed groups, "After Bl 000024A1 ack Power: Women's Liberation," in which she called for meaningful work, equal pay, and the goal for all women to be freed from the role of only "servicing men and their children.". Fast forward 40 years: no matter how optimistic the guesses of our "woman-on-a-Detroit-street," I bet they wouldn't have outstripped what's actually... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Soprano family values Sep 19, 2009
Famous NYers, like Gloria Steinem, drew their likeness at the Vanguard and now tiny works of art are up for auction. The city's tough economy continues to leave many cash-strapped New Yorkers struggling to care for their pets. (Yahoo News -- The Sopranos)
'Its Not on Obama. Its Really Still on Us.' Sep 19, 2009
Gloria Steinem said, The truth shall set you free, but first itll piss you off. And when you [hear about what] I said in 2004, they leave out a statement on purpose. (Slate)
California First Lady Maria Shriver Announces Recipients of The Minerva Awards(R) 2009 to be Honored at The Women's Conference Sep 15, 2009
Past Minerva Award recipients have included former First Lady Betty Ford ('05), Olympian Anita de Frantz ('05), Billie Jean King ('08), family literacy pioneer Sister Jennie Lechtenberg ('05), the Honorable Nancy Pelosi ('07), Sally Ride ('06), Eunice Kennedy Shriver ('07) and Gloria Steinem ('08). The achievements of Minerva Award winners are chronicled in a permanent, conference-funded exhibit at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts in Sacramento, and have become part of... (PR Newswire)
• Essayist David Sedaris leads off lecture series lineup Aug 28, 2009
Udesen said she was nervous about being able to match last year's lineup - which featured Gloria Steinem, Michael Chabon and Michael Pollan. "I am just so thrilled that we're able to have this group here. It would be an impressive lineup anywhere, but for an arts center our size it verges on the unbelievable."They are all so smart and challenging and clued-in to the issues and culture of our time. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
How teens text our patience Aug 17, 2009
(With notable exceptions such as Gloria Steinem and Martin Luther King Jr.). But if Millennials become any more minimalist as far as communicating goes, they might just wrest that title away. (Boston Globe)
New private jets for Congress? Are you kidding? Aug 11, 2009
Feminist activist Gloria Steinem and author Pia de Solenni, among others, have noted what they consider irony in Schlafly s role as an advocate for the full-time mother and wife, while being herself a lawyer, editor of a monthly newsletter, regular speaker at anti-liberal rallies, and political activist. I Report/ I Am The Mob :-) You Whine. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
President Obama's Excellent Choice Jul 16, 2009
This must be welcome news to feminist Gloria Steinem, who once said a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Do we want scientists who are mini-gods and think that whatever can be done, should be done. (Townhall.com)
Tickets to The Women's Conference 2009 Main Event Sell Out in Record Time of Less Than Two Hours Jul 14, 2009
Night at The Village - The Place to Be, will once again transform the Long Beach Convention Center's exhibit hall into a 160,000 square foot women's village of inspiring interactive experiences, offering attendees the chance to "Meet, Mix and Mingle with Architects of Change. The Women's Conference created this new event in 2008 as a response to increasing demand and is expanding it this year with 10,000 women expected to attend. Night at The Village will include a main stage program featuring... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The Documentary Outrage: A Review Jun 23, 2009
Gloria Steinem, feminist and founder of Ms Magazine, once said, The closer we are to power, the more passive we have to be kept. What Kirby gets wrong are his sources. (Suite101.com)
Letterman sort of apologizes about Palin wisecrack Jun 16, 2009
It would be 24-7 of Gloria Steinem, Gloria Alred, Phyllis Schafley et al. But since it's a conservative, their silence is deafening. " xdfred wrote on Jun 12, 2009 8:53 AM:" momofthree wrote on Jun 11, 2009 11:55 PM. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
LETTER: Denying their rights won't get rid of gays Jun 5, 2009
TODAY'S HEADLINES SPECIAL SECTION ONLINE POLL. Should the Obamas have flown to New York for the weekend at government expense in this economy. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Been and gone Jun 2, 2009
The novel was hailed by feminists such as Gloria Steinem who said "It expressed the experience of a huge number of women and let them know that they were not alone and not crazy.". Wayne Allwine was married to the voice of Minnie Mouse. (BBC News -- UK)
CNN Takes Honors At Women's Media Center May 20, 2009
The Women's Media Center, which was co-founded in 2005 by Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan, has named the honorees in its first Media Awards and CNN women swept the honors for best broadcast journalism. The awards acknowledge "some of the women who are making a difference in media.". (Multichannel News)
Helen Gurley Brown's Sexy Mistake May 13, 2009
Scanlon says at the outset that she believes Brown has been one of the major forces in the postwar women's movement, right up there with Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem. It's not the world's easiest argument to makeshe's talking about someone who called Playboy a "terrific" magazine; described her own book as "a girlish, gurgling, non-literary kind of thing"; and advised any woman over 40 that she better get good at "sucking, handling and, most of all, admiring" her man's penis because from... (Slate)
Obama the fiscal conservative. Got it? May 8, 2009
Really, you should never try to impose feminist principles that even Gloria Steinem refuses to pay attention to. But surely, when it comes to combating teen pregnancy, the Palin family has done enough damage already. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Marilyn French, feminist leader and novelist who wrote 'Women's Room'; at 79 May 7, 2009
Gloria Steinem, in an interview with The New York Times, compared the impact of the book on the women's rights movement to the one that Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" had on civil rights 25 years earlier. "It expressed the experience of a huge number of women and let them know that they were not alone and not crazy.". (Boston Globe)
Nerf football, Patriots style May 7, 2009
So was Gloria Steinem. A first-rate memory of DeLuiseOver the years, WFNX news director Henry Santoro has interviewed plenty of celebs. (Boston Globe)
Summer of ’69 Apr 30, 2009
Gloria Steinem, Jack Newfield, and Noel Parmentel pitched the idea to him, guaranteeing its cross-partisan pedigree from the start. Murray Rothbard called it the most refreshing libertarian political campaign in decades. (The American Conservative)
Why Bea Arthur was golden Apr 28, 2009
This was when Gloria Steinem was flipping her long, streaked hair and saying that she "[needed] a man like a fish needs a bicycle"; when Germaine Greer was unleashing her Glamazon-wisdom to seduce and attack everyone from dumb-struck Playboys to Norman Mailer; when plain-Jane everywoman, it seemed, felt like taking Erica Jong's dirty lead in Fear of Flying and leaving her husband for a sexy vagabond. And Arthur, the impossibly tall, warrior-stylish eponymous heroine, made Maude an unprecedented... (Globe and Mail)
Should Women Lie About Their Age? Apr 6, 2009
The magazine's founder, Gloria Steinem, was honest about her age from the earliest days of her fame. When a reporter said to Steinem in 1974, Oh, you dont look 40, Steinem famously replied, This is what 40 looks like weve been lying for so long, who would know. (Time.com)
zz quote of the day Mar 22, 2009
- Gloria Steinem, American writer and activist. Business Forum Read more news on mining, economics, finance and property in. (Business Report, South Africa)
Retired UNI prof writes intimate portrait of lifelong friend Vonnegut Mar 8, 2009
Editor Gloria Steinem promptly turned it down and Vonnegut called her refusal letter an "obtuse response.". Rackstraw was equally protective of Vonnegut and recognized the melancholy man who lurked beneath the whimsical surface. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Boston vs. Boston Feb 26, 2009
So says Ms. magazine founder Gloria Steinem, who spoke yesterday at Bunker Hill Community College as part of the school's "Compelling Conservations" series. (Previous speakers have included actor Richard Dreyfuss and muckraker Bob Woodward. (Boston Globe)
In the open at last, a secret all women share Feb 24, 2009
Even Gloria Steinem makes an appearance, with a reprint of her hoary 1978 classic, "If Men Could Menstruate." ("Congress would fund a National Institute of Dysmenorrhea to help stamp out monthly discomforts. Sanitary supplies would be federally funded and free."). Like other menstruating women in Bangalore, India, in 1962, Shobha Sharma was banished from the family home to an isolated room in the back garden. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
46 years later, Jane Fonda returns to Broadway Feb 23, 2009
Even after their divorce in 2001, though, she has continued to live in Atlanta, where she runs a couple of nonprofit organizations and stays in touch with an extensive net of mostly female friends, including Eve Ensler, Gloria Steinem, Robin Morgan and the writer Patricia Bosworth. Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
New film festival celebrates movies about aging Feb 19, 2009
"Tillie Olsen: A Heart in Action," an homage to the activist author by Annie Hershey, includes footage from Olsen's readings and interviews with Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker and others. "Sweet Old Song," by Oakland filmmaker Leah Mahan, unspools the life story of singular African American musician Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong through the lens of his longtime romantic relationship with Barbara Ward, an artist 30 years his junior. (San Francisco Chronicle)
