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...reconsider the issue at their next meeting in June. Meanwhile, the reversal measure's initial success has earned praise from NARAL Pro Choice America's Kate Michelman and an offer from Choice USA for Schnebel and another advocate to attend a five-day summer training program at the Gloria Steinem Leadership Institute. But Schnebel insists that she is not interested in a political career. She plans to pursue a master's degree in special education and hopes to work eventually with children who have cerebral palsy or autism. Her campaign, she says, was spurred by the belief that...
Fonda, a well-known activist who led an anti-teen pregnancy campaign in Georgia and traveled to Vietnam to promote peace, said she first encountered Gilligan’s work—the ultimate inspiration for her donation—when writer Gloria Steinem gave her a copy of In a Different Voice, Gilligan’s book on female psychology...
...including close associates, old friends, and family. The result is a sweeping portrait, covering Nader's small-town Connecticut boyhood, his days at Harvard law, the David-and-Goliath battle with GM that launched him into the spotlight, and colorful encounters with characters as varied as Albert Einstein, Gloria Steinem, Fidel Castro, Phil Donahue, Susan Sarandon, Upton Sinclair and Al Gore. The climax of this extraordinary story is an astonishingly revealing insider's account of the 2000 election...
...their preferences in wardrobe, career and husbands do not adequately differentiate the two, perhaps their approach to aging will. Distinguishing herself from the founder of Ms. magazine, CHER, 55, asserted, "I'm just not gonna Gloria Steinem out and say, 'Oh, no, I'm thrilled.'" In an interview to air this week on ABC's Primetime Thursday, the singer turned actress turned disco diva rejects the blather about the glory of gathering wisdom and laugh lines: "I would love to lie, but I don't think there's anything good about it." Lest one snicker over her attempts to fight...
Starting with the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique in 1963, contemporary feminism--women's lib--had been a newly surging social current in America. Riding its crest were such vivid provocateurs as Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug. But by 1975, TIME argued, feminism had "transcended the feminist movement" and penetrated every layer of society. The idea of equal social and professional rights for women, "once the doctrine of well-educated middle-class women," had "taken hold among working-class women, farm wives, blacks, Puerto Ricans, white 'ethnics.'" The drama of the sexes remained, TIME cautioned...