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Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender Kindle Edition

by Gloria Steinem (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
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Essays from the New York Times–bestselling author who inspired the film The Glorias, a “woman who has told the truth about her life and ours” (Los Angeles Times).
  With cool humor and rich intellect, Gloria Steinem strips bare our social constructions of gender and race, explaining just how limiting these invented cultural identities can be.
 
In the first of six sections, Steinem imagines how our understanding of human psychology would be different in a witty reversal: What if Freud had been a woman who inflicted biological inferiority on men (think “womb envy”)? In other essays, she presents positive examples of people who turn gendered stereotypes on their heads, from a female bodybuilder to Mahatma Gandhi, whose followers absorbed his wisdom that change starts at the bottom. And in some of the most moving pieces, Steinem reveals some of her own complicated history as a writer, woman, and citizen of the world.
 
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gloria Steinem including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
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“Ms. Steinem’s enduring contribution to the women’s movement has been her ability to popularize feminist issues to a wide and often wary audience.” —The New York Times
“Steinem is one woman who has told the truth about her life and ours.” —Los Angeles Times

About the Author

Gloria Steinem (b. 1934) is an American feminist, activist, writer, and editor who has shaped debates on gender, politics, and art since the 1960s. Steinem was born in Toledo, Ohio. Cofounder of Ms. Magazine and a founding contributor of New York magazine, Steinem has also published numerous bestselling nonfiction titles. Through activism, lectures, constant traveling as an organizer, and appearances in the media over time, Steinem has worked to address inequalities based on sex, race, sexuality, class, and hierarchy. She lives in New York City.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007RJA5JS
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (May 15, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 15, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2705 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 317 pages
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Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and spokeswoman for the feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 70s.

She was a columnist for New York magazine and a founder of Ms. magazine. In 1969, she published an article, "After Black Power, Women's Liberation," which brought her to national fame as a feminist leader.

In 2005, Steinem, Jane Fonda, and Robin Morgan co-founded the Women's Media Center, an organization that works "to make women visible and powerful in the media."

Steinem currently travels internationally as an organizer and lecturer and is a media spokeswoman on issues of equality.

Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Ms. Foundation for Women (GloriaAwards_DN-250) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Joe
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful, insightful, well-written and provoking!
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2012
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The only thing I didn't like about this book is, during the Phyllis Freud short essay, she leaves the impression that she abhors men. I get it. She's the original feminist and a wonderful woman and I set the book down feeling a more complete understanding of what a woman's world is like. I plan on reading it again when I have the time because I felt it was THAT good, however, that first essay was overboard and unnecessary. It's ok to be pissed off at men who clearly demonstrate a tendency toward foolish behavior but not all men are this way and on the contrary, there are many things she mentioned in that first essay that I felt could be true about both men AND women but that suggested men do alone. I would give examples but I haven't the time to delve into where I marked the book and wrote comments (which I most certainly did!) Either way, I got a LOT out of the book and her essays and loved it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Book!
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2010
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Gloria Steinem is an amazing author! This is an amazing book and my favorite part is when Gloria turns Freud into a woman. During that chapter, Gloria uses all of Freud's famous theories and turns them against men. Amazing Book! Great Read!
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Amie
3.0 out of 5 stars Keeping it real.
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2013
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Very insightful to woman's issues, and background of why women are where we are at today, the beginning was rough but over all informative.
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M. Leahy
5.0 out of 5 stars Our Leader!!
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2014
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Bless her...always reminds us who we are, what we can do...and fto continue to fight the good fight! Thank you, SISTER!
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Lin Greer
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2018
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I love her writing style.
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Janet
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Mothers of the Modern Movement
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2017
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She writes beautifully!
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Linda Shirley
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2015
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Love the book.
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Kay F Gibbs
3.0 out of 5 stars She didn't really let'm have it...
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2016
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...I think she wanted to say more...
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5.0 out of 5 stars parfait, livre arrivé à temps, en très bon état.
Reviewed in France on August 12, 2019
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La première partie du livre est dediée à une analyse de Freud par gloria Steinem, que j'ai trouvée percutante.
Une auteure féministe qui a une vision large des problématiques. Je le recommande.
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