The World's Most Famous Feminist, Gloria Steinem, Dies

The legendary feminist Gloria Steinem died at 92 at her home in New York. Steinem was an icon of the second feminist wave and one of the most well-known faces of the movement worldwide. The article mentions that her determination and audacity made her extremely popular in the 1970s, a period when she used journalism as a platform for the fight for women's rights. Among her most well-known actions, Steinem disguised herself as a bunny to infiltrate the Playboy mansion and was one of the first women to write about the emergence of contraceptives. Her celebrated memoirs "My Life on the Road," published by Alpha Decay, are dedicated to the doctor who performed an abortion on her at age 22. Her fight for women's right to decide about their own bodies, which she herself called at the time "our Vietnam," continues today more present than ever, in a context of widespread rollback of reproductive freedoms in the United States.