The feminism that Gloria Steinem embodied, by which in the 1960s she took to the road to defend the rights of women, was not a category, nor a label, it was a way of being and being in the world.
The feminism that Gloria Steinem embodied, by which in the 1960s she took to the road to defend the rights of women, was not a category, nor a label, it was a way of being and being in the world.
Just ten years and a few days ago I had a telephone conversation with Gloria Steinem (1934-2016). Her memoirs, entitled ‘My Life on the Road’ (Alpha Decay) and which she dedicated to the London physician that in 1957, “a decade before it was legal in England to perform abortions except in the event that the woman’s life was in danger, she took the considerable risk of helping a 22-year-old American on her way to India,” were to be published in S…