Most Popular Books by Gloria Steinem

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Gloria Steinem—writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader—tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of her life as a traveler, a listener, and a catalyst for change. ONE OF O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE’S TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Harper’s Bazaar • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Publishers Weekly When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel. Taking to the road—by which I mean letting the road take you—changed who I thought I was. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories—in short, out of our heads and into our hearts. Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. When she was a young girl, her father would pack the family in the car every fall and drive across country searching for adventure and trying to make a living. The seeds were planted: Gloria realized that growing up didn’t have to mean settling down. And so began a lifetime of travel, of activism and leadership, of listening to people whose voices and ideas would inspire change and revolution. My Life on the Road is the moving, funny, and profound story of Gloria’s growth and also the growth of a revolutionary movement for equality—and the story of how surprising encounters on the road shaped both. From her first experience of social activism among women in India to her work as a journalist in the 1960s; from the whirlwind of political campaigns to the founding of Ms. magazine; from the historic 1977 National Women’s Conference to her travels through Indian Country—a lifetime spent on the road allowed Gloria to listen and connect deeply with people, to understand that context is everything, and to become part of a movement that would change the world. In prose that is revealing and rich, Gloria reminds us that living in an open, observant, and “on the road” state of mind can make a difference in how we learn, what we do, and how we understand each other. Praise for My Life on the Road “This legendary feminist makes a compelling case for traveling as listening: a way of letting strangers’ stories flow, as she puts it, ‘out of our heads and into our hearts.’”—People “Like Steinem herself, [My Life on the Road] is thoughtful and astonishingly humble. It is also filled with a sense of the momentous while offering deeply personal insights into what shaped her.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “A lyrical meditation on restlessness and the quest for equity . . . Part of the appeal of My Life is how Steinem, with evocative, melodic prose, conveys the air of discovery and wonder she felt during so many of her journeys. . . . The lessons imparted in Life on the Road offer more than a reminiscence. They are a beacon of hope for the future.”—USA Today “A warmly companionable look back at nearly five decades as itinerant feminist organizer and standard-bearer. If you’ve ever wondered what it might be like to sit down with Ms. Steinem for a casual dinner, this disarmingly intimate book gives a pretty good idea, mixing hard-won pragmatic lessons with more inspirational insights.”—The New York Times “Steinem rocks. My Life on the Road abounds with fresh insights and is as populist as can be.”—The Boston Globe

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.

Reflections on women’s aging from the New York Times–bestselling author who inspired the film The Glorias. One day I woke up and there was a seventy-year-old woman in my bed . . . Gloria Steinem has been an eloquent and outspoken voice for women’s rights and equality for more than four decades. In Doing Sixty & Seventy she addresses an essential concern of people everywhere—and especially of women: the issue of aging. Whereas turning fifty, in her experience, is “leaving a much-loved and familiar country,” turning sixty means “arriving at the border of a new one.” With insight, intelligence, wit, and heartfelt honesty, she explores the landscapes of this new country and celebrates what she has called “the greatest adventure of our lives.” While appreciating everybody’s experiences as different, Steinem sees these years as charged with possibilities. Dealing with stereotypes and the “invisibility” that often accompany a woman’s senior years can be as liberating as it is frustrating. It frees women as well as men to embrace that “full, glorious, alive-in-the-moment, don’t-give-a-damn yet caring-for-everything sense of the right now.” This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gloria Steinem including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

The feminist icon and New York Times–bestselling author offers an intimate appraisal of the ultimate sex symbol—and the real woman behind the images. Few books have altered the perception of a celebrity as much as Marilyn. Gloria Steinem, the renowned feminist who inspired the film The Glorias, reveals that behind the familiar sex symbol lay a tortured spirit with powerful charisma, intelligence, and complexity. This national bestseller delves into a topic many other writers have ignored—that of Norma Jeane, the young girl who grew up with an unstable mother, constant shuffling between foster homes, and abuse. Steinem evocatively recreates that world, connecting it to the fragile adult persona of Marilyn Monroe. Her compelling text draws on a long, private interview Monroe gave to photographer George Barris, part of an intended joint project begun during Monroe’s last summer. Steinem’s Marilyn also includes Barris’s extraordinary portraits of Monroe, taken just weeks before the star’s death. “An even-handed introduction to the Monroe phenomenon.” —Library Journal

Newly updated: The bestseller “that could bring the human race a little closer to rescuing itself” from the subject of the film The Two Glorias (Naomi Wolf). Without self-esteem, the only change is an exchange of masters; with it, there is no need for masters. When trying to find books to give to “the countless brave and smart women I met who didn’t think of themselves as either brave or smart,” Steinem realized that books either supposed that external political change would cure everything or that internal change would. None linked internal and external change together in a seamless circle of cause and effect, effect and cause. She undertook to write such a book, and ended up transforming her life, as well as the lives of others. The result of her reflections is this truly transformative book: part personal collection of stories from her own life and the lives of many others, part revolutionary guide to finding community and inspiration. Steinem finds role models in a very young and uncertain Gandhi as well as unlikely heroes from the streets to history. Revolution from Within addresses the core issues of self-authority and unjust external authority, and argues that the first is necessary to transform the second. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gloria Steinem including rare images from the author’s personal collection, as well as a new preface and list of book recommendations from Steinem.

A beautifully illustrated collection of Gloria Steinem’s most inspirational and outrageous quotes, with an introduction and essays by the feminist activist herself “A fearless book full of passion, resolute perspective, and unbiased hope for the future.”—Janelle Monáe For decades—and especially now, in these times of crisis—people around the world have found guidance, humor, and unity in Gloria Steinem’s gift for creating quotes that offer hope and inspire action. From her early days as a journalist and feminist activist, Steinem’s words have helped generations to empower themselves and work together. Covering topics from relationships (“Many are looking for the right person. Too few are trying to be the right person.”) to the patriarchy (“Men are liked better when they win. Women are liked better when they lose. This is how the patriarchy is enforced every day.”) and activism (“Revolutions, like trees, grow from the bottom up.”), this is the definitive collection of Steinem’s words on what matters most. Steinem sees quotes as “the poetry of everyday life,” so she also has included a few favorites from friends, including bell hooks, Flo Kennedy, and Michelle Obama, in this book that will make you want to laugh, march, and create some quotes of your own. In fact, at the end of the book, there’s a special space for readers to add their own quotes and others they’ve found inspiring. The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off! is both timeless and timely. It is a gift of hope from Steinem to readers, and a book to share with friends.

Gloria Steinem, one of the most iconic feminist thinkers of the world, spent her early years in India. Her time in the country revealed to Gloria the Gandhian insight that change, like a tree, must grow from the bottom up. Subsequently, her decades of work with the feminist movement in the US and across the world taught her that violence and domination are normalized by the false division of human beings into subject and object, the dominator and the dominated, ''masculine'' and ''feminine''. In As if Women Matter, Gloria Steinem and activist Ruchira Gupta bring together a selection of ground-breaking essays by Gloria which, since the time that they were first written, have transcended borders and have laid the groundwork for much of modern feminist thought. In these pages, Gloria demonstrates how racism and discrimination based on caste and class differences cannot survive without controlling women''s bodies-she also describes the many ways in which women and men are fighting that control. She brilliantly analyzes Adolf Hitler''s obsession with masculinity, and finds a gendered understanding of violence in the making. She distinguishes between erotica and pornography, locating the difference between the two in the inequality that governs relations between the sexes. And, in addition to a trenchant account of a few days she spent as a Playboy Bunny, this volume also carries a never-before-published essay on sex trafficking by Gloria, ''The Third Way''. As if Women Matter is scholarly, profound, and leavened by a lightness of touch which makes the most complex arguments accessible to all readers.

This New York Times bestseller from the legendary feminist featured in the film The Two Glorias is as relevant today as when it was first published. Spanning two decades—from the early sixties to the early eighties—the pieces in Gloria Steinem’s diverse, stimulating, and often prescient first collection dare to ask how our world might change for the better if we each behaved “as if everyone mattered.” An early assignment as a “girl reporter,” going undercover as a Bunny in Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Club, becomes an eye-opening exposé of appalling work conditions and sexual harassment. As Steinem observed, “I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner.” In addition to “I Was a Playboy Bunny,” the essays in this collection challenge the practices and preconceptions that marginalize, exclude, exploit, and victimize women. Steinem understands that the political is always personal, and vice versa, and as such her writings range from the polemical—“Erotica vs. Pornography” and “The Politics of Food”—to the deeply personal—“Ruth’s Song,” a moving tribute to her mentally ill mother—to sharp satire like “If Men Could Menstruate.” One of the first to address topics such as female genital mutilation and transgenderism, Steinem has truly earned the right to be called a feminist pioneer, and this volume is both a testament to her legacy in the fight for equality and an entertaining, thought-provoking journey through the lives of modern women. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gloria Steinem including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

"Gloria Steinem''s 1963 book celebrating beach culture dedicated "To Ocean Beach Pier that was and to Paradise Island". Introduction by John Kenneth Galbraith (yes, the economist and diplomat). Fascinating peak into early ''60s attitudes to leisure." --Amazon.com.

"Three years of Doonesbury are packed into this Trudeau tour de force, his fourth, and perhaps most timely, major anthology. Those three years coincide precisely with the election campaign, inauguration, and first years in office of the First Cowboy. At the core of this book are the foibles and follies of life under the Reagan Administration, portrayed with the inimitable Trudeau wit and style in more than 500 daily strips and 80 full-color Sunday pages. This rich collection is Trudeau at his trenchant best, and makes the election-year return to syndication of one of America''s most popular and clearly its most political comic strips." -- Back cover

For more than fifty years, Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser have revolutionized the look of magazine journalism. In Mag Men, Bernard and Glaser recount their storied careers, offering insiders'' perspective on some of the most iconic design work of the twentieth century. The authors look back on and analyze some of their most important and compelling projects, from the creation of New York magazine to redesigns of such publications as Time, Fortune, Paris Match, and The Nation, explaining how their designs complemented a story and shaped the visual identity of a magazine. Richly illustrated with the covers and interiors that defined their careers, Mag Men is bursting with vivid examples of Bernard and Glaser''s work, designed to encapsulate their distinctive approach to visual storytelling and capture the major events and trends of the past half century. Highlighting the importance of collaboration in magazine journalism, Bernard and Glaser detail their relationships with a variety of writers, editors, and artists, including Nora Ephron, Tom Wolfe, Gail Sheehy, David Levine, Seymour Chwast, Katherine Graham, Clay Felker, and Katrina vanden Heuvel. The book features a foreword by Gloria Steinem, who reflects on her work in magazines and her collaborations with Bernard and Glaser. At a time when uncertainty continues to cloud the future of print journalism, Mag Men offers not only a personal history from two of its most innovative figures but also a reminder and celebration of the visual impact and sense of style that only magazines can offer.

Escritora, jornalista, ativista e líder inspiradora, Gloria Steinem faz um relato sincero de sua vida como viajante. Minha vida na estrada é a história emocionante e profunda sobre o crescimento de Gloria e de um movimento revolucionário em busca de igualdade — e como encontros surpreendentes na estrada ajudaram a moldar ambos. Da primeira experiência de ativismo social entre as mulheres na Índia ao trabalho como jornalista na década de 1960; do turbilhão de campanhas políticas à fundação da revista Ms.; da histórica Conferência Nacional da Mulher de 1977 às viagens aos territórios indígenas, uma vida passada na estrada permitiu a Gloria ouvir e conectar-se profundamente com as pessoas, entender que contexto é tudo e fazer parte de um movimento que mudaria o mundo.

L’estime de soi selon l’icône du féminisme Gloria Steinem Gloria Steinem a lutté toute sa vie contre les injustices sociales. Dans Une révolution intérieure, elle s’emploie à montrer comment ces injustices viennent saper l’estime de soi – chez les femmes mais aussi chez les hommes, peu importent l’appartenance ethnique, la classe sociale, l’âge ou l’orientation sexuelle. Convaincue que le personnel est politique et que l’estime de soi détermine notre capacité à exister dans l’espace public, elle nous livre des clés essentielles pour la restaurer : acquisition de connaissances et de techniques, partage d’expériences ou encore méditations guidées. Un ouvrage qui mêle anecdotes personnelles, témoignages et analyses, et qui invite à se réemparer de sa propre vie. Publié dans une nouvelle traduction, avec une préface inédite de Mona Chollet. À propos de l’autrice Gloria Steinem est une activiste féministe américaine née en 1934. Journaliste, autrice, elle a fondé le magazine Ms. et, avec Jane Fonda et Robin Morgan, le Women’s Media Center, une organisation qui se bat pour rendre les femmes plus visibles dans les médias.

One of America''s most influential political activists on issues of equality and gender, Gloria Steinem answers fundamental questions about leadership and what really matters to her. Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, feminist organizer and frequent media commentator on issues of equality and gender, and has helped found various organizations centred on generating equal rights for women. She is the co-founder of pioneering feminist magazine Ms. Magazine, and career has earned her numerous awards including the Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Award, the Penney-Missouri Journalism Award, the United Nation''s Society of Writers Award and Ceres Medal, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her latest book, My Life on the Road - her first in over twenty years - is a New York Times bestseller and one of O: The Oprah Magazine''s Ten Favorite Books Of The Year. She lives in New York City. Inspired by Nelson Mandela and created in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela Foundation, I Know This To Be True is a global series founded on original interviews that has been created to honour Nelson Mandela''s legacy, and to inspire a new generation of leaders. Royalties from sales of this book will go to the Nelson Mandela Foundation to fund the free distribution of material from the series in countries with developing economies, or economies in transition.

« Quelque part entre la poésie et le journalisme se trouve le pays magique des citations. Elles peuvent être factuelles ou fantaisistes, personnelles ou politiques, venir de l’université ou de la rue, mais elles sont toujours assez courtes et pertinentes pour imprimer l’esprit. » Depuis ses jeunes années en tant que journaliste activiste, Gloria Steinem a toujours su manier la langue pour forger des slogans: ceux qui disent tout en peu de choses, qui inspirent, qui réconfortent, qui rassemblent. Pendant des décennies, les bons mots de Gloria ont aidé des générations de femmes à prendre leur vie en main. Tirées de ses écrits de ses discours mais aussi de ses amies, ce florilège rassemble ainsi ses meilleurs citations sur les sujets qui comptent: le patriarcat et l’importance de se libérer des conventions mais aussi la vieillesse, le travail, le bonheur...Entre réflexion, et poésie, La Vérité vous libérera mais d’abord elle vous mettra en rage vous fera rire et vous donnera envie de soulever des montagnes! Un livre atemporel, à partager sans modération. Traduit de l''anglais (États-Unis) par Karine Lalechère. À propos de l’auteur Gloria Steinem, aujourd’hui âgée de 86 ans, est une activiste féministe américaine. Journaliste, écrivain, elle a fondé le magazine Ms. et, avec Jane Fonda et Robin Morgan, le Women’s Media Center, une organisation qui se bat pour rendre les femmes plus visibles dans les médias.

"Les Éditions du Portrait comblent une lacune incompréhensible" Le Monde des Livres - Florent Georgesco "A mettre entre toutes les mains (...) "Recueil d’articles et de textes majeurs (...) qui vient d’être traduit pour la première fois en français" Les Inrocks - Carole Boinet "Les réflexions de Gloria Steinem n''ont pas pris une ride" Télérama - Nathalie Crom "L’expertise de Gloria Steinem est tellement clairvoyante (...)que le lecteur (trice) a l’impression qu’on lui propose une relecture intime de sa propre vie». Figaro Madame -Isabelle Potel Actions scandaleuses et rébellions quotidiennes, vendu à 500 000 exemplaires aux États-Unis, retrace quinze années de la vie de Gloria Steinem, passées à défendre l’égalité homme-femme. Soit vingt-six textes écrits avec humour, finesse et justesse, pour faire entendre que le féminisme est un humanisme, et le sexisme, un racisme. De son infiltration comme “Bunny” dans un club Playboy de New York à son analyse de la pornographie, en passant par l’évident apport du travail fourni par les femmes, ou encore les portraits de Jackie Kennedy et de Marilyn Monroe, Gloria Steinem met en lumière le système patriarcal et l’enfermement qu’il impose aux femmes. Mais surtout elle montre la possibilité pour elles de s’émanciper des rôles qui leur ont été attribués et d’acquérir les droits et les libertés qui leur sont dus. Faire advenir l’égalité juridique et sociale pour tous est le meilleur des leviers pour instaurer une économie prospère et permettre aux femmes et aux hommes d’investir toutes leurs fonctions. Emma Watson signe la préface. Un texte inédit dans lequel elle raconte sa rencontre avec Gloria Steinem. En partageant sa conviction que l’on apprend toujours de ses expériences et de celles des autres, Gloria Steinem entraîne les lectrices et les lecteurs à prendre le pouvoir sur leur vie. Galvanisant.

»Eine Ausnahmeerscheinung, ikonisch, klug, unabhängig.« FAZ Sie ist eine der größten Kultfiguren des Feminismus. Vorbild für Frauen seit mehr als fünf Jahrzehnten. Bis heute setzt sich Gloria Steinem leidenschaftlich dafür ein, dass die Stimmen von Frauen gehört werden – sei es in der #metoo-Debatte oder beim Women''s March in Washington. In ihren Memoiren blickt die Tochter eines durch die Lande tingelnden Antiquitätenhändlers zurück auf ein ereignisreiches Leben. Ein Leben, das weder Rast noch Ruhe kannte und in dem die Hoffnung auf ein gerechteres Miteinander von Männern und Frauen nie erlosch. Mitreißend beschreibt Gloria Steinem, wie sie zu einer der »coolsten« Frauenrechtlerinnen wurde, der es nie nur um Feminismus ging, sondern um soziale Gerechtigkeit. (Dieses Buch ist im btb Verlag schon einmal unter dem Titel "My Life on the Road" erschienen.)

Selections from the series of comic books which the author produced under the pseud. Charles Moulton and which were originally published from 1941 to 1946.

Hedda Nussbaum, battered and bruised after years of domestic torture by her live-in partner, Joel Steinberg, was abruptly thrown into the public spotlight in November 1987 after Steinberg assaulted and killed their daughter, Lisa. This book tells the painful story of Hedda''s 12 years with Steinberg, how she went from quiet book editor to notorious battered woman blamed for her daughter''s death because she didn''t “get out” soon enough. But, as the title suggests, Hedda not only survived the double abuse, but grew strong in the process and went on to become an advocate for other battered women - writing and speaking, teaching women how to stay out of and/or to survive intimate terrorism. In her Prologue, Ms. Nussbaum states the book''s primary purpose: “I pray that my story be an inspiration to women to see the truth before it''s too late and to use their inner strength to save their own lives and those of their children. If this book saves just one child or one mother, I will be content. If it saves even more, I will be fulfilled.” Ms. Nussbaum is a former senior editor at Random House and the author of the children''s books Plants Do Amazing Things and Animals Build Amazing Homes.

Les mémoires de Gloria Steinem enfin traduites en français Gloria Steinem, aujourd''hui âgée de 83 ans, est une icône féministe américaine, inscrite au Women''s National Hall of Fame. Journaliste, écrivain, elle a fondé le magazine féministe Ms. et, avec Jane Fonda et Robin Morgan, le Women''s Media Center, une organisation qui se bat pour rendre les femmes plus présentes et plus visibles dans les médias. Elle a également participé aux campagnes présidentielles de Hillary Clinton et de Barack Obama. Ma vie sur la route est le récit extraordinaire, profondément humaniste, d''une femme qui a passé sa vie à sillonner les Etats-Unis et à militer. Cette autobiographie en forme de road trip se lit comme la passionnante chronique de cinq décennies d''histoire américaine, depuis le discours de Martin Luther King jusqu''à l''évolution des droits de la communauté gay en passant par l''avortement ou la cause amérindienne. Une ode au nomadisme, à l''intranquillité qui nous pousse à partir à l''aventure et, avant tout, à la rencontre des autres.