Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Dies at 92
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- The Guardian
- BBC News
- Reuters
- The Economist
- MS NOW
- CNN
- Associated Press
- The Hindu
- The Indian Express
- La Tercera
- Asahi Shimbun
- Al Jazeera
- El Pais
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Gloria Steinem, a prominent journalist and leader of the women's rights movement, died on September 2 at the age of 92 in her New York City home. Her death was announced by the Gloria Foundation. Steinem spent over 60 years advocating for gender equality, reproductive freedom, and workplace equity. She became a symbol of the second wave of feminism, moving the movement beyond suffrage toward broader equality in the home, the law, and the workplace.
Steinem gained early mainstream attention in the 1960s with an undercover expose of the Playboy Club. In 1972, she co-founded Ms. magazine, which brought feminist issues to a mass audience across America. Throughout her career, she campaigned for the Equal Rights Amendment and the right to abortion, a victory she saw in the 1973 Roe v Wade decision, which was later overturned in 2022.
Her personal history informed her activism. Steinem spent two years in India after graduating from Smith College in 1956, an experience that influenced her views on social justice and her practice of hosting talking circles for community building. She also spoke openly about her own illegal abortion at age 22 and her childhood caring for her mentally ill mother. In her later years, she remained an active critic of Donald Trump, whom she once called the harasser in chief.
Outlets with a center-left lean emphasized her role as a community builder and her lifelong commitment to the intersection of the personal and the political. Center-leaning sources focused on her status as a defining symbol of the movement and her career as a journalist. Center-right sources highlighted her ability to give feminism mass-market appeal and her specific political clashes with Donald Trump.
How each side framed it
- Centre-left
- These outlets focused on her grassroots organizing, her personal struggles, and her role in building community through talking circles.
- Centre
- These outlets framed her primarily as a defining symbol and eloquent advocate for equality within the broader historical context of the women's movement.
- Centre-right
- These outlets highlighted her role in making feminism a mass-market phenomenon and her adversarial relationship with Donald Trump.
Sources
- Centre-left Al Jazeera: Feminist trailblazer Gloria Steinem passes away at age 92
- Centre-left Asahi Shimbun: Gloria Steinem dies, led feminism movement from the United States
- Centre Associated Press: In her final memoir, Gloria Steinem looked back with hope and planned to live to 100 - AP News
- Centre Associated Press: Gloria Steinem, defining symbol of women’s movement and eloquent advocate for equality, dies at 92 - AP News
- Centre Associated Press: AP Was There: In 1970, Gloria Steinem was a journalist, a feminist and a member of the glitterati - AP News
- Centre BBC News: Watch: Gloria Steinem dedicated her life to fight for women's equality
- Centre-left CNN: Gloria Steinem’s friend of 55 years, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, on her life and legacy
- Centre-left CNN: Gloria Steinem spent a lifetime fighting for women’s rights
- Centre-left CNN: The roots of inequality? Gloria Steinem said look at home first
- Centre-left CNN: Gloria Steinem on the importance of reproductive freedom
- Centre-left CNN: ‘She inspired me’: Gloria Allred remembers Gloria Steinem
- Centre-left El Pais: Gloria Steinem, one of our own
- Centre-right La Tercera: The story of the deceased feminism icon Gloria Steinem and her clashes with Trump
- Left MS NOW: The symbolic power of Gloria Steinem’s iconic living room ‘talking circles’
- Centre Reuters: Feminist activist Gloria Steinem dies at age 92 - Reuters
- Centre-right The Economist: Gloria Steinem gave the feminist movement mass-market appeal
- Centre-left The Guardian: Gloria Steinem personified America’s feminist movement | Moira Donegan
- Centre-left The Hindu: The feminist organiser and her everyday rebellions
- Centre The Indian Express: Why Gloria Steinem’s legacy matters for the feminist movement and its many waves
- Centre The Indian Express: The feminist lessons Gloria Steinem carried from India to America
- Centre The Indian Express: All the lives that Gloria Steinem lived
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