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DIED. ELIZABETH JANEWAY, 91, influential social critic and early feminist; in Rye, N.Y. Starting out as a novelist, she befriended Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan and developed an interest in the burgeoning women's movement. In 1971 she wrote Man's World, Woman's Place, the first of six nonfiction books on gender and power that brought her national acclaim...
...daughter of a sex educator and a politician, Menendez keenly feels both the interplay and the conflict between the worlds of politics and sex. As a third grader, she once presented on Gloria Steinem, telling the class about Steinem’s abortion. In middle school, she wrote a paper on the female aversion to masturbation. “I’ve been 30 since I was about six years old,” she shrugs...
...STEINEM GOING STRONG...
Thank you for the interview with Gloria Steinem [April 5]. She has been my role model throughout my life, which would be very different had it not been for Steinem and the women's rights movement. She has given me strength and courage. I thank Steinem for being articulate, sexy, smart, strong and passionate. I am proud to be a feminist. SARA A. FLICKNER Chicago...
...Steinem said, "Achieving a society in which men raise children as much as women do is crucial." But the role of men in the family has changed dramatically in the past 30 years. As a father and husband, I cook, wash dishes, do laundry and love and nurture my children--and I'm not the only father who does. What planet has Steinem been living on? DOUG EASTON Corvallis...