Marcello, Patricia. Gloria Steinem: A Biography. Greenwood Press. Westport, CT. Steinem, Gloria. Scholars, Witches, and Other Freedom Fighters. Speech at Salem State College. Salem, MA. Stern, Sydney Ladensohn. Carol Publishing Group. Secaucus, NJ. Bridget M. Berry was born on April 16, in Brooklyn, NY. She enjoys performing and spending time with her family and friends. Home » Human Rights » Gloria Steinem. Photo by Edward Pieratt. Photo by Warren K.
An award-winning and prolific writer, Steinem has authored several books, including a biography on Marilyn Monroe, and the best-selling My Life on the Road. Her work has also been published and reprinted in numerous anthologies and textbooks. Heilbrun, Carolyn G. Dial Press, HBO Documentaries. Gloria: In Her Own Words. Steinem, Gloria. My Life on the Road. Random House, Holt Paperbacks: Voices of Feminism, Oral History Project. Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.
Men and women are, after all, physically complementary. When society stops encouraging men to be exploiters and women to be parasites, they may turn out to be more complementary in emotion as well. A look at the statistics on divorce—plus the way in which old people are farmed out with strangers and young people flee the home—shows the destruction that has already been done. Liberated women are just trying to point out the disaster, and build compassionate and practical alternatives from the ruins.
What will exist is a variety of alternative life-styles. Paradoxically, the number of homosexuals may get smaller. With fewer overpossessive mothers and fewer fathers who hold up an impossibly cruel or perfectionist idea of manhood, boys will be less likely to be denied or reject their identity as males.
Men now suffer from more diseases due to stress, heart attacks, ulcers, a higher suicide rate, greater difficulty living alone, less adaptability to change and, in general, a shorter life span than women. There is some scientific evidence that what produces physical problems is not work itself, but the inability to choose which work, and how much. Protestant women are already becoming ordained ministers; radical nuns are carrying out liturgical functions that were once the exclusive property of priests; Jewish women are rewriting prayers—particularly those that Orthodox Jews recite every morning thanking God they are not female.
In the future, the church will become an area of equal participation by women. This means, of course, that organized religion will have to give up one of its great historical weapons: sexual repression. In most structured faiths, from Hinduism through Roman Catholicism, the status of women went down as the position of priests ascended. Male clergy implied, if they did not teach, that women were unclean, unworthy and sources of ungodly temptation, in order to remove them as rivals for the emotional forces of men.
Full participation of women in ecclesiastical life might involve certain changes in theology, such as, for instance, a radical redefinition of sin. Fiction writing will change more gradually, but romantic novels with wilting heroines and swashbuckling heroes will be reduced to historical value.
Or perhaps to the sadomasochist trade. As for the literary plots that turn on forced marriages or horrific abortions, they will seem as dated as Prohibition stories. Free legal abortions and free birth control will force writers to give up pregnancy as the deus ex machina. Dress will be more androgynous, with class symbols becoming more important than sexual ones.
She still dyes her hair, but has passed on plastic surgery. She still has terrific bone structure. One thing she loves about being older is her lack of libido. She is one of those women who rankle people merely by still being aboveground. You would think the collective cultural impulse would be to treat Gloria Steinem as a cool old person, a grand dame of a time gone by when tinted aviator glasses were not worn ironically.
This, sadly, is not the case. Controversial old guys tend to get a pass see adopted daughter—marrying Woody Allen —but not so crusading, outspoken women. For half our divided nation, Gloria is a beloved icon. For the other half, her politics are problematic. We honor them and thank them for paving the way for the many who follow. Gloria Steinem was invited to be the inaugural Legend. She was photographed wearing a perfectly respectable blazer and scarf. Reproductive freedom was never mentioned.
In so doing, they effectively alienated everyone: the people who will never forgive them for having thought to celebrate Gloria in the first place as well as a lot of left-leaning pro-choice women.
Gloria Steinem is indeed someone to be honored. I read this and laughed. Gloria Steinem is not going to change her tune at this late date to placate a clothing catalog. Or anyone else, for that matter. But appreciate the lightness of her words, the playfulness. All rights reserved. Culture In Praise of Difficult Women. A portrait of feminist and author Gloria Steinem in National Geographic's book In Praise of Difficult Women by Karen Karbo profiles women throughout the world who have pushed societal norms and boundaries in areas spanning the gambit from politics, art, media, books, and more.
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