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...Steinem: I would argue that masculinity limits a man's full range of human qualities, and so becomes a mask for a lack of self, shame, and low self- esteem...
...Steinem: Throughout the 1970s, the movement was more consciousness raising in the classic sense. People were enunciating new issues. There were speakouts and demonstrations. That still goes on, but now that we have majority support, we're ready for institutional change. Women are beginning to connect our everyday lives to changing work patterns and even the government. It's a big leap to think that what happens to you every day -- in the secretarial pool, at the shopping center -- has anything to do with who is in the Senate or the White House. The connection is just beginning...
...thing straight. Gloria Steinem, the leading icon of American feminism, has not turned her back on the women's movement. Quite the contrary. She has come of age with a 377-page credo on the potency of self-esteem that is rooted in nearly three decades of social activism, embraces men and women with equal fervor, and neatly hooks into the national quest for the self. With her No. 1 best seller, Revolution from Within, she has vaulted back into the public fray. "Maybe I should have done this earlier in my life," she says candidly...
...blender treatise on the inner child, unlearning, relearning, the "Universal I" and the five senses. "The bottom line is that self-authority is the single most radical idea there is," she says emphatically, "and there is a real hunger for putting the personal and the external back together again." Steinem is hardly the first to tap into that need, and indeed, her book (published by Little, Brown, a division of Time Warner) draws heavily, and at times mushily, from the existing literature. The public response defies a number of critics, many of them women, who have decried Steinem for "abandoning...
...curious that after all these years ahead of the pack, Steinem appears surprised and a bit disquieted by the controversy her book has engendered. In one breath she talks about rewriting the introduction to clarify the book's thesis and convert her critics, and in the next she refuses to see herself as a leader. "I wrote out of my personal and political reality and never thought it would have this impact," she admits readily. Breaking down hierarchies has long been her mission, and at 57, she is clearly not about to create a new one. "The point...