Writers are always quite used to sitting in our chair, typing, so it doesn’t feel that unusual. You grew up as the daughter of a traveling salesman and spent the majority of your adult life on the road, engaged in activism. Steinem spoke to Rolling Stone by phone from Santa Barbara, where she’s been beaming into Zoom happy hours throughout the pandemic while working on her next book. magazine, spokeswoman for the National Women’s Political Caucus, and the driving f orce behind the ERA. (Steinem, for what it’s worth, was not a fan of show, which she’s said portrays the policy battle as “a catfight” she maintains that the opposition to the ERA, then and now, is motivated by corporate greed.) In the fall, she was celebrated in The Glorias, Julie Taymor’s feature film adaptation of Steinem’s memoir, chronicling her years as an investigative journalist, founder of Ms. America, about the multi-decade fight to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. In the spring, she served as the inspiration for the star-studded FX series Mrs. But more than half a century later, Steinem is still here, and more relevant than ever. Some, like her New Journalism contemporary Gay Talese, thought she was a passing fad - “This year’s pretty girl in journalism,” to use his precise phrasing. Gloria Steinem stormed the popular consciousness in 1963, the year her undercover exposé documenting the humiliations that cocktail waitresses at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Club were forced to endure to get (and keep) a job was published in Show magazine.
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