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...Hanes targeted the new Ms. magazine to sell the Lindsay ad. That's right, the mouthpiece of the movement, Gloria Steinem's brainchild, now sells silky pantyhose and sexual stereotypes along with consciousness-raising and feminist politics...
...year ago, the original owners of Ms.--a non-profit foundation headed by Steinem and other holdovers from the women's movement--sold the magazine to an Australian media group which promptly introduced advertising into the previously uncommercial monthly. And, with the publication of last month's issue, ownership of the magazine changed hands again--this time, two women took over Ms., touting the sale as a victory for women in the publishing business...
...abrupt about- face. It was only a year ago that the company, which is Australia's second largest publishing concern, dispatched Yates to the U.S. to create Sassy, an American version of Fairfax's fabulously successful Australian teen magazine Dolly. Last September, upon hearing that Ms. Founders Gloria Steinem and Patricia Carbine were looking for a new source of funding, Yates persuaded her Australian bosses to buy the magazine for a reported $10 million. She then installed Summers, a feminist historian and former chief of Fairfax's New York bureau, as editor...
...Barbie had a house, a car and a boyfriend, period," she notes. Peters has not been swayed by close friends who have babies. "They spend the first three months staring at the baby. I won't give my life over to that. The Smurfs become your life." Feminist Gloria Steinem, 54, also made a deliberate choice. "I either gave birth to someone else," she explains, "or I gave birth to myself...
...Steinem believes women want men to share the burdens of parenting. "Women are on a baby strike. They have said, 'I'm not doing this myself.' " Certainly, many men still want to have children; but most are content to leave child raising to their wives. Still, some men are opting for childlessness too. Ed McCrary, 41, a recovering alcoholic who works for a rehab center in Charlotte, N.C., and his wife, also a recovering alcoholic, have decided against having children because the "chances are too high" that the baby too would become an alcoholic...