Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Marilyn: Norma Jeane
Revolution from Within
Moving Beyond Words
As If Women Matter (India)
GLORIA STEINEM is a writer, lecturer, political activist, and feminist organizer. She was a founder of New York and Ms. magazines. She is the author of Moving Beyond Words, Revolution from Within, and Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, all published in the United States, and, in India, As If Women Matter. Her writing also appears in many anthologies and textbooks. She co-founded the National Women’s Political Caucus, the Ms. Foundation for Women, the Free to Be Foundation, and the Women’s Media Center in this country. As links to other countries, she helped found Equality Now, Donor Direct Action, and Direct Impact Africa. For her writing, Steinem has received the Penney-Missouri Journalism Award, the Front Page and Clarion awards, the National Magazine Award, the Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Writers Award from the United Nations, and the University of Missouri School of Journalism Award for Distinguished Service in Journalism. In 1993, her concern with child abuse led her to co-produce an Emmy Award–winning TV documentary for HBO, Multiple Personalities: The Search for Deadly Memories. She is currently working with the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College on documenting the grassroots origins of the U.S. women’s movement, and on a Center for Organizers in tribute to Wilma Mankiller, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. Steinem has been the subject of three television documentaries, including HBO’s Gloria: In Her Own Words, and she is among the subjects of the 2013 PBS documentary Makers, a continuing project to record the women who made America. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College in 1956, she spent two years in India on a Chester Bowles Fellowship, and was influenced by Gandhian organizing. She has been awarded numerous honorary degrees, including the first doctorate of human justice awarded by Simmons College, the Bill of Rights Award from the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, the National Gay Rights Advocates Award, and the Ceres Medal from the United Nations. In 2013, President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor. Rutgers University is now creating the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies. Steinem lives in New York City and spends about half her time traveling in this and other countries.
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