Gloria Steinem

Examines the life of an improbable but undisputed leader of the Second Wave Feminist Movement--Gloria Steinem. A book in ABC-CLIO's Women Making History series, the book chronicles Steinem's life against a backdrop of the social, political, and culturalchange that swept the nation and of which she was both a catalyst and a reflection. The goal of this book is to examine the life of activist and journalist Gloria Steinem and the changing America in which she lived. It doing so it seeks to demonstrate how those changes came about and the role she played in shifting American gender values--