Gloria Steinem a Feminist who chose to become a
freelance writer right after completing college. This took her in a direction
in her life that led to her getting involved in women’s movement. She is a women’s rights activist and journalist. She began her journey as a
activisit in her early 60’s and till today she keeps moving sending her
messages through interviews and writing. This woman is very articulate when it
comes to expressing her concerns about women rights and distributes that
information intricately. Part of what she does is campaigning and published
books about feminism. She participated in a pbs clip interview where she
focuses on women, men and power. Gloria discusses how the women movement evolved
and continues to do so; opening doors for women to share personal experiences, creating
a wholeness atmospheric environment so no woman is neglected. She also discusses what is lacking in the women
movement and what is still left to build on and to improve. Gloria Steinem mentions
in her PBS interview that the women movement is “the biggest immigrant group,”
she raises issues about racism and the effect that it has on women. She does
everything she can to be present at college campuses to discuss the issues that
women are dealing with.
In the 1960s she assumed that you had to get married
or your crazy. Every person had to live a similar life. Feminism means acting
on it as well as believing in it; women realized that they were not crazy to
think that something was wrong with how the system operates. One of the important shifts happening is the reproductive
rights the interviewee mentioned and asked Gloria is this just politics? Gloria
replied “well Yes and no, it’s patriarchal politics as usual because the very
definition of patriarchy is controlling reproduction and women’s bodies are the
means of reproduction so every patriarchy in different ways tries to control
how many workers hoe many soldiers how many which races or classes should
increase more than others so classically they restrict the women of the
superior group so called and exploit the bodies of the inferior group you know
in order to produce cheap labor. in
order to maintain class or maintain clear racial differences, by declaring
reproductive freedom as a fundamental right, we are seizing control of the
means of reproduction it even sounds
radical, it is radical and incidentally it is the only reasonable way to
survive on this planet earth because whether we can decide when and whether to
have kids is the biggest determine of whether we’re healthy, how long we’re
going to live…
“A fundamental human right” Gloria said that she thinks
that in the beginning the women movement was seen as odd, different, then the
movement became the majority, then the movement got a big backlash.” “ The
overall problem is that women are still treated as if they were a particular
subject rather than something that transforms every subject”-Gloria Steinem
Sources
NEED TO KNOW | Gloria Steinem on men, women and power
| PBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmFxFmrcngk
bell hooks & Gloria Steinem at Eugene Lang College
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