Gloria Steinem & Suzanne Braun Levine in Conversation 2018

USD$10.00

The founder and the first editor of Ms. tell stories about the early days of the magazine and the beginnings of the contemporary women’s movement – and how it changed their lives. Then they open the floor to personal stories about those exciting and scary times, and discuss how those of us who are “elders” in the movement can be most useful today. There is a generous amount of time for questions on other topics too. Get up close and personal with Gloria Steinem and Suzanne Braun Levine.

Description

Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist. She travels in this and other countries as an organizer and lecturer and is a frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality.

Suzanne Braun Levine is a writer, editor and lecturer on women, families and changing gender roles. The first editor of Ms. magazine and the first woman editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, she reports on the changes in women’s lives in her books and as a blogger for AARP, Huff/Post 50, Feminist.com and as a contributing editor to More magazine. She was speaker at TEDWomen 2011 and honored by MAKERS in 2014.

Her eBook You Gotta Have Girlfriends: A Post-Fifty Posse Is Good for Your Health is a continuation of her conversation with women in second adulthood, the stage she celebrated in: Fifty Is the New Fifty, How We Love Now and Inventing the Rest of Our Lives. Her new eBook Can Men Have It All? And What “The Daddy Track” Means for Women examines the changing the role of fatherhood a topic she pioneered in Father Courage (2000).

In 2007, she co-authored a widely acclaimed oral history of NY Rep. Bella Abzug. While at Ms. she conceived and produced a Peabody Award-winning HBO special She’s Nobody’s Baby: American Women in the 20th Century and edited the book on the film. The editor-in-chief of the 30th anniversary issue of Ms., she was named a “Ms. Woman of the Year” in 2004.