Gloria Steinem's Bookshelf
The illustrious author shares an inspiring bookshelf ahead of new play on her life
Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, political activist, and feminist organizer. She travels globally as an organizer and lecturer and is a frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality. She is particularly interested in the shared origins of gender and race caste systems, in non-violent conflict resolution, in the cultures of indigenous peoples and in organizing across boundaries for peace and justice. In 2016, President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, this country’s highest civilian honor. Her most recent book is My Life on the Road. She lives in New York City.
Now in performances at the Daryl Roth Theatre, GLORIA: A LIFE weaves together events from Gloria’s 50 years in social and political activism. The first act is her story; the second is our own.
Gloria’s Bookshelf
Sex and World Peace by Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli and Chad F. Emmett
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Trauma and Recovery by Judith L. Herman.
True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness: A Feminist Coming of Age by Christine Lahti
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Dark Matter: New Poems by Robin Morgan
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism & the Future by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy… by Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom
The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise by Dorothy Dinnerstein
Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts
The Women’s Atlas by Joni Seager
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
The Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn Allen
American Like Me by America Ferrera
The Power of Rare by Victoria Jackson
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique Morris
Writing a Woman’s Life by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
