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When Ms. was launched as a “one-shot” sample insert in New York Magazine in December 1971, few realized it would become the landmark institution in both women’s rights and American journalism that it is today.
The founders of Ms., many of whom are now household names, helped to shape contemporary feminism. According to founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Ms.’ authors translated “a movement into a magazine.”
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40 Years of Ms. … And Counting
This week, we’re proud to say Ms. magazine is featured on the cover of New York magazine, the place where it all started 40 years ago this December. That’s when New York‘s editor Clay Felker offered to make the very first issue of Ms. an insert in his magazine, where Gloria Steinem was a staff [...]
#HERvotes Blog Carnival Takes on Health Care
October 11, 2011 by Ms. · Leave a Comment
Welcome to the third #HERvotes Blog Carnival! This time, the focus is on women and health care. The blog posts below contain lots of information about the new benefits from the Affordable Care Act, and offer original insights on what’s at stake for women–especially in the 2012 election. You’ll also find personal stories and analysis [...]
Ms. Readers’ 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time: The Top 10 and the Complete List!
October 10, 2011 by Ms. · 36 Comments
Scholar, activist, provocateur, teacher, community-builder, inspiration: No one word can span the career of bell hooks or capture how much we love her work. According to Ms. readers’ selections of the best feminist non-fiction of all time, she’s your favorite writer, with three books in our top ten–including number one–and a total of seven books [...]
Top 100 Feminist Non-Fiction Countdown: 20-11
October 8, 2011 by Ms. · 2 Comments
Nearing the top 10, we’ve got some heavy hitters. Famous feminists Simone De Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Naomi Wolf, Eve Ensler and Jessica Valenti appear along with revolutionary self-help manual, Our Bodies, Ourselves, and popular books by Julia Serano, Marjane Satrapi and Yoani Sanchez. Now is the time to submit your guesses in the comments [...]
Afghan Woman Legislator’s Hunger Strike Reaches Day Six
Today, Simin Barakzai reached her sixth consecutive day of a hunger strike to the death in a tent in front of the Afghan parliament building. [Update, Monday 10/10: On day nine, Barakzai is still refusing water or food and is in critical condition.] Barakzai, a member of parliament from Herat, is camped out to protest [...]
Top 100 Feminist Non-Fiction Countdown: 30-21
October 7, 2011 by Ms. · 4 Comments
Many of books 21 to 30 were famous for challenging the status quo–whether that be male supremacy in general or privilege within the feminist movement. In this section you’ll find the defining works of Chicana, women-of-color and third-wave feminism (as well as one landmark anthology at the intersection of all three). Last, two 21st-century historians [...]
Top 100 Feminist Non-Fiction Countdown: 40-31
October 6, 2011 by Ms. · 2 Comments
As we get closer to the top, here are career-defining works from the likes of Angela Y. Davis, Kate Bornstein, Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof, Patricia Hill Collins, Susie Orbach and Mary Pipher. If you’ve heard of these folks, it’s probably because of the books below. If you haven’t, you have some great reading ahead! [...]
Top 100 Feminist Non-Fiction Countdown: 50-41
October 5, 2011 by Ms. · Leave a Comment
Within books 50 to 41, you’ll find several controversial takes on motherhood and many a memoir, including a reflection on the personal impact of breast cancer, a graphic autobiography from a dyke to watch out for and some gutsy revelations from a Nation columnist. You’ll also see a satire of how the patriarchy tries to dampen [...]
Top 100 Feminist Non-Fiction Countdown: 60-51
The next 10 books picked by Ms. readers take us on a journey through history, from 20,000-year-old goddess worship to the 3,500-year-old origins of patriarchy to 400 years of U.S. women’s history all the way up to the 2008 presidential bid of Hillary Clinton. Next, bell hooks and Gloria Steinem get personal by looking at [...]
Top 100 Feminist Non-Fiction Countdown: 70-61
October 3, 2011 by Ms. · 5 Comments
Books 70 to 61 take a darker turn, looking at some of the harsh realities of sexism, homophobia and racism. Here, writers take on rape, colonialism, wage disparities, racist reproductive injustice, and the hidden pre-Roe stories of women who gave up their children for adoption. But to start, two works by heavyweight feminist theorists that [...]
