Ms. Magazine Volume 1 Number 2 (August 1972)
Second monthly issue of the trailblazing Ms. Magazine, co-founded by feminist journalist and activist Gloria Steinem in 1971 to provide a platform for women’s voices that itself would be controlled solely by women. Volume 1 Number 2, which came out in August 1972, features a portrait of Marilyn Monroe on the cover accompanied by a 9-page spread (“The Woman Who Died Too Soon”) with text by Gloria Steinem and Monroe. The issue also includes poetry and fiction by Alice Walker and Doris Lessing, a Kate Millet essay on Angela Davis, an Angela Davis essay on black women, and articles entitled The Liberated Orgasm; The Women of Bangladesh; Lost Women: Harriet H. Robinson; Woman’s Bodies, Woman’s Mind: Self-Examination; New Feminist Theater; and If Pat Nixon Were a Feminist. 4to, pictorial wraps, 130 pages with illustrations in color and b/w. Lean to spine. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. A very presentable copy, without a mailing sticker.
Second monthly issue of the trailblazing Ms. Magazine, co-founded by feminist journalist and activist Gloria Steinem in 1971 to provide a platform for women’s voices that itself would be controlled solely by women. Volume 1 Number 2, which came out in August 1972, features a portrait of Marilyn Monroe on the cover accompanied by a 9-page spread (“The Woman Who Died Too Soon”) with text by Gloria Steinem and Monroe. The issue also includes poetry and fiction by Alice Walker and Doris Lessing, a Kate Millet essay on Angela Davis, an Angela Davis essay on black women, and articles entitled The Liberated Orgasm; The Women of Bangladesh; Lost Women: Harriet H. Robinson; Woman’s Bodies, Woman’s Mind: Self-Examination; New Feminist Theater; and If Pat Nixon Were a Feminist. 4to, pictorial wraps, 130 pages with illustrations in color and b/w. Lean to spine. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. A very presentable copy, without a mailing sticker.
Second monthly issue of the trailblazing Ms. Magazine, co-founded by feminist journalist and activist Gloria Steinem in 1971 to provide a platform for women’s voices that itself would be controlled solely by women. Volume 1 Number 2, which came out in August 1972, features a portrait of Marilyn Monroe on the cover accompanied by a 9-page spread (“The Woman Who Died Too Soon”) with text by Gloria Steinem and Monroe. The issue also includes poetry and fiction by Alice Walker and Doris Lessing, a Kate Millet essay on Angela Davis, an Angela Davis essay on black women, and articles entitled The Liberated Orgasm; The Women of Bangladesh; Lost Women: Harriet H. Robinson; Woman’s Bodies, Woman’s Mind: Self-Examination; New Feminist Theater; and If Pat Nixon Were a Feminist. 4to, pictorial wraps, 130 pages with illustrations in color and b/w. Lean to spine. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. A very presentable copy, without a mailing sticker.
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