Steinem Born: Feminism's Most Visible Voice
Gloria Steinem wrote an exposé of the Playboy Club in 1963, having worked undercover as a Bunny for two weeks. The piece made her reputation and also trapped her: editors kept sending her to women's topics because that's where they'd put her. She co-founded Ms. magazine in 1972, which ran without advertising for years on subscription alone to avoid editorial interference from advertisers. She marched, organized, testified, and wrote for five decades. Born March 25, 1934, in Toledo, Ohio. Her mother had a debilitating mental illness; Steinem essentially raised herself. She married for the first time at 66, to activist David Bale. She said she finally believed in marriage after helping defeat an anti-feminist ballot initiative in South Africa that claimed feminism destroyed it.
March 25, 1934
92 years ago
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