steinem

=Gloria Steinem=


 * Directions**: Use the following questions and resources to learn more about your individual. Take careful notes; you may not simply cut and paste from the Internet into your notes. Keep careful track of your sources for your Works Cited. Based on your research, you will create a profile of your individual to share with the class. This profile should provide basic background information on your individual //and// provide an overview of his/her stance on our main questions: where is the U.S. headed from here? what are the primary issues/concerns facing our nation? how would deal with these issues and concerns?


 * Questions to consider as you do your research?**
 * How did the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement affect the development of the women's movement in the late 1960s?
 * What were Steinem's major concerns? goals?
 * What had changed ---historical context!---that helps us understand why women began to throw off the constraints of the 1950s and challenge gender inequality?
 * How would she define equality? How might her goals compare to those of civil rights activists at the time?


 * Resources**
 * Gale: Women's History: http://gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/steinem_g.htm
 * //Mother Jones//, "Gloria": http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/1995/11/gorney.html
 * Time Magazine: Article BY Steinem: what it would be like if women win? http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,876786,00.html
 * Ms.Magazine: Then and Now: http://www.msmagazine.com/fall2007/thenandnow.asp
 * U.Va Online: Forum with Steinem: http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/2000/31/steinem.html
 * Time Magazine: Women on the March (1970): http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,902696,00.html?promoid=googlep
 * Time Magazine: Liberating Women (1970): http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909414,00.html?promoid=googlep
 * History Matters: Steinem's Testimony on the ERA: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/7025/