Summary
A celebration of Ms.—the most startling, most audacious, most norm-breaking of the magazine's groundbreaking pieces on women, men, politics (sexual and otherwise), marriage, family, education, work, motherhood, reproductive rights, as well as the best of the magazine’s fiction, poetry, and letters.
For the past five decades Ms. has been the nation’s most influential source of feminist ideas, and remains at the forefront of feminism today, affecting thought and culture with a younger than ever readership (ages 16-20!).
Ms. was the first U.S. magazine to:
feature prominent American women demanding the repeal of laws that criminalized abortionexplain and advocate for the Equal Rights Amendmentrate presidential candidates on women’s issuesfeature domestic violence and sexual harassment on its cover, long before either were widely understood or acknowledgedcommission and publish a national study on date rape
Here is the best reporting, fiction, and advertising, decade by decade, as well as the best photographs and features that reveal and reflect the changes set in motion by Ms., along with the iconic covers that galvanized readers.
A partial listing of the essays, profiles, conversations and features include: Alice Walker, Anita Hill, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, as well as fiction and poetry by Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Adrienne Rich, Sandra Cisneros, and Margaret Atwood, among many others.Author Biography
GLORIA STEINEM, writer, political activist, and feminist organizer, was a founder of New York and Ms. magazines.
KATHERINE SPILLAR is the Executive Editor of Ms. magazine and Executive Director of Feminist Majority Foundation. Spillar served four terms as President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Organization for Women.
ELEANOR SMEAL is the publisher of Ms. and president of Feminist Majority Foundation which she co-founded, and its sister organization, the Feminist Majority. Smeal has been at the forefront of almost every major women’s rights victory in the U.S.
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