5/27/2023 0 Comments Gloria steinem on the road![]() ![]() I’m floored by the sheer amount of work-gritty, urgent, detailed, administrative work-that dominated much of Steinem’s daily life.Īnd yet she goes to great pains to point out how many others were doing this work alongside her. For each well-publicized article, there were men in the wings scoffing at her writing, disparaging her as a means of undercutting the women’s movement. For every successful conference, there were months of sleepless nights, phone calls, fundraising, red-eyes, and research. It’s a sweeping account of her work and why she did it.ĭo you know how many hours of Gloria Steinem’s life have been spent organizing people into productive, proactive groups? Me neither, but the answer is somewhere between “dizzying” and “countless.” Steinem’s tireless, decades-long diligence as an organizer is described in illuminating detail. ![]() ![]() Of course, it becomes clear after a few chapters that most of Gloria’s life has been spent traveling, and so this isn’t really a book about just one slice of her life. The book is a winding account of Steinem’s years of travel-organizing, working on political campaigns, selling ads for Ms., writing, and speaking: on campuses, at conventions, with world leaders, and on book tours. Reading her new memoir, My Life on the Road, is probably the closest I’ll ever get to actually having dinner with Gloria. She’s the woman I most admire, and the only consistent guest at my fantasy dinner party. It feels so unimaginative to write that Gloria Steinem is my hero. ![]()
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