Steinem - Passion, politics, and everyday activism: collected essays

Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays

Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within

Gloria Steinem

CONTENTS

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Copyright Moving Beyond Words 1994 by Gloria Steinem

The author is grateful for permission to reprint the following copyright material:

Nobody Wrote a Poem from Piece of Time, by Carrie Allen McCray (a Crimson Edge Chapbook by Chicory Blue Press, 1993). Copyright 1993 by Carrie Allen McCray.

Excerpted lines from Prologue are reprinted from Undersong, Chosen Poems Old and New, Revised Edition, by Audre Lorde, by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Copyright 1992, 1982, 1976, 1974, 1973, 1970, 1968 by Audre Lorde.

Excerpt from We Alone in Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, Poems, by Alice Walker, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace & Company. Copyright 1984 by Alice Walker.

Copyright Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions 1983 and 1995 by Gloria Steinem,

Copyright 1984 by East Toledo Productions, Inc.

Portions of this work appeared in a different form in the publications listed; grateful acknowledgement is made to the following:

I Was a Playboy Bunny originally appeared as a two-part article, A Bunnys Tale, Show magazine, 1963. Campaigning includes excerpts from Coming of Age with McGovern: Notes from a Political Diary, Ms. magazine, October 1972, 39. The City on the Eve of Destruction coauthored by Lloyd Weaver, New York magazine, 1968. Trying to Love Eugene, New York magazine, 1968. In Your Heart You Know Hes Nixon, New York magazine, 1968. Nelson Rockefeller: The Sound of One Hand Clapping, New York magazine, 1969. Sisterhood was published in Ms. magazine, 1972. College Reunion originally appeared as Reunions: When College Never Ends, Ms. magazine, September 1981, 30. Words and Change is excerpted from The Way We Were and Will Be, Ms. magazine, 1979, and The Stage Is Set, Ms. magazine, July/August 1982, 77. In Praise of Womens Bodies was published in Ms. magazine, April 1981, 28. The Importance of Work was published as Why Do Women Work?, Ms. magazine, March 1979, 45. The Time Factor, Ms. magazine, March 1980, 45. Men and Women Talking was published as The Politics of Talking in Groups: How to Win the Game and Change the Rules, Ms. magazine, May 1981, 43. The Politics of Food, Ms. magazine, February 1980, 48. Networking was published as How to Survive Burn-Out, Reagan, and Daily Life: Create Psychic Turf, Ms. magazine, February 1982, 95. Transsexualism was published as If the Shoe Doesnt Fit, Change the Foot, Ms. magazine, February 1977, 76. Why Young Women Are More Conservative was published as The Good News Is: These Are Not the Best Years of Your Life, Ms. magazine, September 1979, 64. Erotica vs. Pornography is adapted from Erotica and Pornography: A Clear and Present Difference, Ms. magazine, November 1978, 53, and Pornography Not Sex but the Obscene Use of Power, Ms. magazine, August 1977, 43. Marilyn Monroe: The Woman Who Died Too Soon, Ms. magazine, August 1972, 35. Patricia Nixon Flying is an excerpt from In Your Heart You Know Hes Nixon, published in New York magazine, 1968. The Real Linda Lovelace was published as Linda Lovelaces Ordeal: Tell me, Linda, what in your background led you to a concentration camp?, Ms. magazine, May 1980, 72. Jackie Reconsidered was published as Gloria Steinem on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Ms. magazine, March 1979, 46. Do You Know This Woman? She Knows You: A Profile of Alice Walker was published in Ms. magazine, June 1982, 35. Houston and History is adapted from An Introductory Statement, What Women Want: The National Womens Conference, Simon and Schuster, 1979. The International Crime of Genital Mutilation, Ms. magazine, March 1979, 65. Rx Fantasies: For Temporary Relief of Pain Due to Injustice, was published in Ms. magazine, July 1980, 99. If Hitler Were Alive, Whose Side Would He Be On? was published in two parts: The Nazi Connection: If Hitler Were Alive, Whose Side Would He Be On? and The Nazi Connection: Authoritarianism Begins at Home, Ms. magazine, October 1980, 88 and November 1980, 14. Night Thoughts of a Media Watcher, Ms. magazine, November, 1981, 22. Night Thoughts of a Media Watcher was published in Ms. magazine, 1981 and combined with parts of The Draft: Who Needs It?, Ms. magazine, April 1980, 20. If Men Could Menstruate was first broadcast as a CBS Spectrum, 1977, then expanded in Ms. magazine, October 1978, 110. Far from the Opposite Shore was published as Far from the Opposite Shore: How to Survive Though a Feminist, Ms. magazine, July 1978, 65, and The Stage Is Set, Ms. magazine, July/August 1982, 77. January 10, 1973 is from Goodnight Willie Lee, Ill See You in the Morning by Alice Walker. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. and the Julian Bach Literary Agency, Inc. Playboys Theme is used by permission of copyright owner Edwin H. Morris & Company, Inc.

Copyright Revolution from Within 1992, 1993 by Gloria Steinem

The author is grateful for permission to reprint the following copyright material:

Excerpt from Time-Travel from Satan Says by Sharon Olds. Copyright 1980 by Sharon Olds. Used by permission of University of Pittsburgh Press.

Excerpt from The Network of the Mother from Upstairs in the Garden, Poems Selected and New, 1968-1988, by Robin Morgan. Copyright 1990 by Robin Morgan. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Excerpt from An Ordinary Woman from Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 by Lucille Clifton. Copyright 1987 by BOA Editions Ltd. Used by permission of the publisher.

Excerpt from Work Addiction by Bryan Robinson, Ph.D. Copyright 1989. Used by permission of the publisher, Health Communications, Inc., Deerfield Beach, Florida.

Motheroot from Abiding Appalachia: Where Mountain and Atom Meet by Marilou Awiakta. Copyright 1978. Used by permission of St. Lukes Press.

The low road from The Moon Is Always Female by Marge Piercy. Copyright 1980 by Marge Piercy. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

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Cover photograph Moving Beyond Words and Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Jenny Warburg

Cover photograph Revolution from Within by Tom Marks

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