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Gloria Steinem is a leading American feminist who represents an active part of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States from the end of the 20th century to the present. She was the founder of the women's magazine Ms. which was a window into women's liberation and a loudspeaker for third wave feminism in North America. She has written numerous books and articles in her life as a feminist activist. In 2013, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. She also received a Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities 2021.

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Justificaciones

• Great North American representative of feminism in the second wave and also later.
• Journalist.
• Founder of Ms., a magazine for women.

Biografía

Gloria Steinem is a leading American feminist. 

Steinem spent her childhood traveling with her parents in a caravan. After they divorced in 1946, Gloria moved with her mother to Toledo, Ohio, and began attending school regularly. Her childhood was marked by having to care for her mother who was chronically depressed. After graduating from Smith College in 1956, Steinem went to India on a scholarship where she participated in peaceful protests against government policies. In 1960 she began working as a journalist and writer in New York. She gained public attention in 1963 with her article I was a Playboy Bunny which chronicled her experiences as a waitress at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club. Later her work became much more political when she began her column The City Politic for the New York magazine. From 1968 her involvement in the feminist movement would intensify when she participated in a meeting of the radical feminist group The Redstockings. Steinem founded the National Women's Political Caucus in July 1971 along with Betty Friedan, Bella Abzug and Shirley Chisholm. In December 1971, as a supplement to the New York, Ms. was first published, a women's magazine that dealt with contemporary issues from a feminist point of view and would later become an independent magazine.

Gloria Steinem has devoted her life to women's rights. Other organizations that Steinem has co-founded are: Women's Action Alliance (1971), The Women's Media Center (2004) and Voters for Choice (1977). In the 1990s, she helped establish Take Your Daughter to Work Day to empower young women to pursue different job opportunities. 

In 2000, at the age of 66, she married for the first time the activist and entrepreneur David Bale, who would die four years later of a lymphoma. She has written many books including a biography of Marilyn Monroe or the bestseller My Life on the Road. In 2013 she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, and in 2017 Rutgers University created the Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies in her honour. In 2021 she was recognized with the Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities.

<https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/when-gloria-steinem-spoke-truth-to-power-at-harvard/85153/> (retrieved on 15/04/2022) 
 

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Bibliografía

- Gloria Steinem, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 28/03/2022 <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloria_Steinem&oldid=1078532962>.
- National Women’s History Museum, 28/03/2022 <https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/gloria-steinem>.

Enfoque Didáctico

Gloria Steinem's articles, as well as fragments of her books and parts of her speeches and interviews, can be used in English lessons to work on listening and writing comprehension. 

On the other hand, she can also be very useful in the subject of history to talk about the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States as part of the third wave of Western feminism. 

Of course, she will always be useful to reflect on the patriarchal society and gender roles.

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