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Steinem, Gloria,

My life on the road / Gloria Steinem. - Collingwood, Vic. Black Inc. Books 2015. - 270 pages. 21 cm.

From journalist, activist, and international icon Gloria Steinem comes her first book in twenty years, an all-new memoir of a lifetime of listening and learning from people, traveling America and the world. Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds were planted: Steinem would spend much of her life on the road, as a journalist, organizer, activist, and speaker. In vivid stories that span an entire career, Steinem writes about her time on the campaign trail, from Bobby Kennedy to Hillary Clinton; her early exposure to social activism in India; organizing ground-up movements in America; the taxi drivers who were 'vectors of modern myths' and the airline stewardesses who embraced feminism; and the infinite contrasts, the 'surrealism in everyday life' that Steinem encountered as she traveled back and forth across the country. With the unique perspective of one of the greatest feminist icons of the 20th and 21st centuries, here is an inspiring, profound, enlightening memoir of one woman's life-long journey.

ISBN: 9781863957922 1863957928

Subjects--Personal Names:
Steinem, Gloria,

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Feminists--United States--Biography.
Women journalists--United States--Biography.
Women political activists--United States--Biography.
Feminism--United States.

LC Class. No.: HQ1413.A55

Dewey Class. No.: 305.42092