How Gloria Steinem Put The Feminist Movement Into The Hands Of Everyday Readers

For readers who know Gloria Steinem mainly from photographs at marches or histories of second-wave feminism, returning to her writing offers a more complicated person. There is the investigative reporter going undercover, the satirist imagining menstruating men, the biographer looking past Marilyn Monroe’s manufactured image, the essayist questioning ordinary inequalities, and the older memoirist still trying to understand what she had learnt from other people.