Works by
Gloria Steinem
(Writer)
[March 25, 1934 - ]

Audio

• Gloria Steinem: On Self Esteem (1993)
  Audio cassette

Books

• Doing Sixty and Seventy (2006)
  Gloria Steinem became a spokesperson for issues about aging quite accidentally after declaring to a reporter on the occasion of her fortieth birthday, "This is what forty looks like. We've been lying for so long, who would know?" Because of this casual comment about her age and about the collective societal pressure to lie about our age she received an avalanche of thanks and support from other women facing age discrimination. This caused her to realize the far reaching dimensions of age oppression.
  
  In her inspiring essay, Doing Sixty, Steinem shares her views on age stereotyping, the unexpected liberation that comes with growing older, and defines what she perceives as the fact that women become more radical as they age. The essay also sheds light on the forces that shaped her life and for readers who have only heard bits and pieces about her the essay offers a primer on her bold and logical theories. In the essay, Steinem describes turning fifty as "leaving a much-loved and familiar country" and turning sixty "as arriving at the border of a new one" in which she looked forward to "trading moderation for excess, defiance for openness, and planning for the unknown."
  
  In the Preface, Doing Seventy, written when Steinem is just past seventy and twelve years after the essay was first published, Steinem explains the development of her precious sense of mortality and time.

• Feminist Family Values (1996)

• Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundries of Gender (1993)
  From one of the most influential women in the country and bestselling author of Revolution from Within comes a collection of provocative, entertaining, mind-changing essays. The six pieces, three of which have never been published before, explode common assumptions and propose radical new ways of looking at human possibilities.

• Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem (1992)

• Marilyn: Norma Jean (1986, 1997) with George Barris, photographer

• Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983)
  Gloria Steinem speaks out provocatively through an exceptional collection of her best writings - from her now classic account of becoming a Playboy Bunny to the autobiographical "Ruth's Song", a moving tribute to her mother.
  
  Here are essays that give a powerful voice to the experiences of all women, yet are at the same time an intimate portrait of Gloria Steinem herself. In her profiles of famous women, she uncovers the real person behind the Jackie Onassis's media image... and shows, in a shocking piece on Linda Lovelace, how lethal pornography is to women.
  
  Whether it's searing observations or hilarious satire, as in "If men could menstruate", there is no subject in this stirring, important book that Gloria Steinem does not make newly fresh and vital for us all.

• Wonder Woman (1977) by G. Chesler and Gloria Steinem

• The Thousand Indias (1957)
  A guidebook for the Indian government.

• The Beach Book (1963)

Other

• The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History (1998), Barbara Smith, Gloria Steinem, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, Wilma Mankiller, eds.
  The most inclusive book to date on U.S. women's collective history! A landmark work, The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History, gathers together more than 400 articles to offer a diverse, rich, and often neglected panorama of the nation's past. Written by more than 300 contributors, drawn from various areas of expertise, these narrative and interpretive entries "effectively cover five centuries of women's experiences" (Bloomsbury Review). Here are articles on cowgirls and child care, on the daily lives of single women and the changing notions of motherhood, on the artistic contributions of women of color and the history of Jewish feminism. Wide-ranging in scope and wonderfully accessible, this unique resource reexamines with fresh clarity and brio the issues and concerns that color the lives of all women. Articles and their contributors include: African American Women, Darlene Clark Hine; Cult of Domesticity, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg; Fashion and Style, Lynn Yaeger; Jazz and Blues, Daphne Duval Harrison; Lesbians, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy; Native American Cultures, Clara Sue Kidwell; Picture Brides, Judy Yung; Salem Witchcraft Trials, Mary Beth Norton; Vietnam Era, Sara M. Evans.

See also:

• Gloria Steinem: Champion of Women's Rights (2006) by Nancy Garhan Attebury
  Ages 9-12.

• Gloria Steinem: A Biography (2004) by Patricia Cronin Marcello
  Gloria Steinem represents second-wave American feminism. This new biography recounts her truly fascinating life, one that was remarkable even prior to her association with the feminist movement. Steinem was destined to succeed and showed extraordinary strength dealing with difficult family circumstances, a peripatetic upbringing, and financial straights that forced her as a teenager to support herself and her divorced, emotionally troubled mother. Brains and talent became her tickets to Smith College, travel, journalism, and worldwide fame as a feminist icon.

• Ms.: The Story of Gloria Steinem (2002) by Elizabeth Wheaton

• Gloria Steinem: Feminist Extraordinaire (1998) by Caroline Evensen Lazo

• Gloria Steinem: Her Passions, Politics, and Mystique (1997) by Sydney Ladensohn Stern

• Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem (1995) by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
  From one of America's most respected critics comes an acclaimed biography of the controversial feminist. Here, Heilbrun illuminates the life and explores the many facets of Steinem's complex life, from her difficult childhood to the awakening that changed her into the most famous feminist in the world. Intimate and insightful, here is a biography that is as provocative as the woman who inspired it. Photos.

• The Education of A Dog": The Life and Times of Gloria Steinem by Carolyn Heilbrun 1995

• Gloria Steinem (1987) by Carolyn Daffron
  A biography of the feminist writer and activist who founded "Ms." magazine, helped found the National Women's Political Caucus, and helped establish the Women's Action Alliance.

• One Woman's Power: A Biography of Gloria Steinem (1987) by Emily Taitz and Sondra Henry
  A biography of the influential champion of women's rights with information on her childhood, her education, and her work in the women's movement.