Gloria Steinem

In November, 2013, Barrack Obama bestowed a great honor to Gloria Steinem. She was acknowledged with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for paving a road for the equality and empowerment of women. Steinem stands as one of the cofounders of Ms. which is a women’s feminist magazine. Steinem has devoted her life and whole heartily fought for women’s rights by means of writing, lecturing, and political activity. Her article relates to Women’s Studies 201 course, because she and her work references…

Action Assignment 1 Feminism have been around for a long period of time, while feminist in the past and present have accomplished a lot, there are still some anti-feminists who opposed everything that feminist have done or trying to do. Society have come a long way when it comes to feminism, many changes happened because of the hard work of people who are feminist who are not afraid to stand up for what they believe in. After reading different articles on “ The Eagle Forum “ and “ The Feminist…

Letters on Television” the tricks to a prosperous series and Gloria S. in her article “The Time Factor” mentions the different aspects that could stand in the way of looking ahead to the future. Personalities, however, which results from difference in gender, are not impairment for planning for the future; on the contrary, they could be a key element for that specific action, and closely related to a successful career in TV screening. Steinem analyzes the way race, social power, and economic…

“Wonder Woman” by Gloria Steinem is an essay about comic books having power in everyday life. Comics book tend to only be about super-heroes that save the day—but those super-heroes are men. Wonder Woman is the first female super-hero to be published continually since comic books began. Steinem mentions that Wonder Woman is a gateway for young girls to believe that they do not need to rely on men to save them—but they themselves can save the day. “Comic books have power because they are not…

Gloria Steinem is a feminist and political activist who was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1934. After a difficult childhood, Steinem attended college and began a career as a writer. After experiences that introduced her to social justice and the plight of women, experiences of sexism in her professional life, and pride in her grandmother’s participation in the Ohio’s Suffrage’s movement, Steinem embarked on her career path of feminism and child advocacy. Alice Walker is a womanist who was born in…

A superhero, male or female, is someone who chooses to protect the world from any danger it may face. Why then does society view a male superhero as fulfilling his destiny and a female superhero as defying expectations? Gloria Steinem, an American feminist and activist, discusses in her essay, “Wonder Woman,” that the introduction of a female superhero in media brought about an empowerment in women in a time when she was needed the most. Wonder Woman was a heroine in the making, but not without…

Media and its effect on humanity The essay wonder woman by Gloria Steinem, she about a comic book character created by Charles Moulton. A woman named Diana Prince lived at a place called Paradise Island, and it was consisted of nothing but women, amazon women at that. Wonder woman was the very She was an independent and instead of using violence all the time she took another route to fight crime Steinem says in paragraph nine she “was a amazon super-hero who never killed her enemies. Instead she…

although most are built primarily of distaste. Thus, these people are discriminated against in accordance with these typecasts, just as an individual would discard a novel having only glanced over the hardback. In Gloria Steinem’s essay “The Time Factor,” this is clearly outlined. Steinem suggests that more commonplace individuals; specifically, those who suffer from economic hardship and are segregated through caste, will not have a reasonable sense of time. Instead, they often stray towards…

“A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.” Gloria Steinem is an active feminist that shares her thoughts on a daily blog, trying to empower the youth. Gender equality has created segregation in the workplace due to positions being delegated unfairly, wages being formed without work ethic involved, and stereotypes within the home. There is an unofficially barrier, called the ‘Glass-Ceiling’, that females have to break through…

The Price of Pink “Gloria Steinem wrote that if men got periods, they “would brag about how long and how much”: that boys would talk about their menstruations as the beginning of their manhood, that there would be “gifts, religious ceremonies” and sanitary supplies would be “federally funded and free”” (Valenti). The case for free tampons and other various sanitary products, or at east a lack of tax on such items, practically writes itself, unless it is being presented to those who don’t have…