Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor, political activist and feminist organiser. She is the author of international bestsellers Revolution from Within: A Book of Self Esteem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Moving Beyond Words and Marilyn: Norma Jean and, most recently The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!. For her writing, Steinem has received multiple awards, including the Penney Missouri Journalism Award, the Front Page and Clarion awards and the Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and in 2016, she and Amy Richards co-produced a series of eight documentaries on violence against women around the world for VICELAND.
Gloria Steinem in Conversation
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This event took place on 24 November 2020
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Gloria Steinem in Conversation
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This event took place on 24 November 2020
Gloria Steinem has been called the ‘world’s most famous feminist’. As a young New York journalist, her investigations of contraception, abortion and the Playboy Club made her name amid the changing society of the 1960’s and she has has travelled the world ever since to support the voices and lives of women. At this special event she talks to Zeinab Badawi about her life and activism about families, relationships, ageing, work, laughter, politics and revolution.
This event was part of Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women's Rights, a UK-wide exhibition by the British Library and public libraries.