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Throughout the years, Gloria Steinem is perhaps the single-most iconic figure associated with women''s rights, her name practically synonymous with the word feminism.

Documenting everything from her boundary-pushing journalistic career to the foundation of Ms. magazine to being awarded the 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom, Winifred Conkling''s Ms. Gloria Steinem: A Life is a meticulously researched YA biography that is sure to satisfy even the most voracious of aspiring glass-ceiling smashers.

Gloria Steinem was no stranger to injustice even from a young age.

Her mother, Ruth, having suffered a nervous breakdown at only 34, spent much of Gloria''s childhood in and out of mental health facilities. And when Gloria was only 10 years old, her father divorced her mother and left for California, unable to bear the stress of caring for Ruth any longer.

Gloria never blamed her mother for being unable to hold down a job to support them bo

Ms. Gloria Steinem

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      Publisher St Martin's Press
      Published 1 January 2022
      ISBN-13 9781250833044
      978-1250833044

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Throughout the years, Gloria Steinem is perhaps the single-most iconic figure associated with women''s rights, her name practically synonymous with the word feminism.

      Documenting everything from her boundary-pushing journalistic career to the foundation of Ms. magazine to being awarded the 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom, Winifred Conkling''s Ms. Gloria Steinem: A Life is a meticulously researched YA biography that is sure to satisfy even the most voracious of aspiring glass-ceiling smashers.

      Gloria Steinem was no stranger to injustice even from a young age.

      Her mother, Ruth, having suffered a nervous breakdown at only 34, spent much of Gloria''s childhood in and out of mental health facilities. And when Gloria was only 10 years old, her father divorced her mother and left for California, unable to bear the stress of caring for Ruth any longer.

      Gloria never blamed her mother for being unable to hold down a job to support them bo

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