Her inviting prose is easy and enjoyable to read, even when the subject matter veers towards the painful. Throughout her travels, whether visiting small college campuses in the South or attending a 1971 Harvard Law School dinner where her equality speech was met with animosity, Steinem strives to create positive, meaningful change. bell hooks My Life on the Road is a personal, beautiful look at the deceptively radical act of travel and how it formed one of our most important voices for human rights. Highlights include her role in the 1977 National Women’s Conference-“It was my first glimpse of how little I knew-and how much I wanted to learn”-and her accounts of conversations with taxi drivers across the country. Steinem shares her life as a global freedom fighter, inviting readers to continue the journeyand the struggle.
Vowing to distance herself from both her mother’s dependent lifestyle and her father’s peripatetic ways, Steinem ended up doing exactly what she never imagined: being a public speaker who’s constantly on the move. This is an edited extract from My Life On The Road, by Gloria Steinem, published by Oneworld, at £14.95. Steinem, a staunch advocate for reproductive rights and equal rights for women, long before either was fashionable in the public eye, writes candidly for the first time about her itinerant childhood spent with a father who itched to be constantly in motion and mother who gave up her own happiness for the sake of others. With the unique perspective of one of the greatest feminist icons of the 20th and 21st centuries, here is an inspiring, profound, enlightening memoir of one woman's life-long journey.“If you want people to listen to you,” iconic women’s rights activist Steinem underscores in this powerfully personal yet universally appealing memoir, “you have to listen to them.” And that’s exactly what she’s done for the past four decades, crisscrossing the country in search of inspiring women and women-and men-to inspire. In vivid stories that span an entire career, Steinem writes about her time on the campaign trail, from Bobby Kennedy to Hillary Clinton her early exposure to social activism in India organizing ground-up movements in America the taxi drivers who were "vectors of modern myths" and the airline stewardesses who embraced feminism and the infinite contrasts, the "surrealism in everyday life" that Steinem encountered as she travelled back and forth across the country. The seeds were planted: Steinem would spend much of her life on the road, as a journalist, organizer, activist, and speaker. A respected feminist activists memoir about the life lessons she learned as a. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Gloria Steinemwriter, activist, organizer, and one of the most inspiring leaders in the worldnow tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of how her early years led her to live an on-the-road kind of life, traveling, listening to people, learning, and creating change. THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE HIT BBC SERIES, MRS.
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