Give A Gift
MOST RECENT ARTICLES BY:

Gloria Steinem

Contributing Editor, New York Magazine
1968–1971

Gloria Steinem was a contributing editor at New York from its first issue in 1968 through 1971, covering city and national politics. In our early issues, she worked mostly as a columnist and essayist, writing about Richard Nixon’s return to power, John Lindsay’s faltering mayoralty, the Vietnam War, abortion, and especially the women’s movement. Feminism gradually became her principal beat, and in December 1971, she co-founded Ms. Magazine, which launched as a supplement bound into the center of New York’s year-end issue. She has published nine books, produced multiple documentaries, made countless speeches and media appearances, and for 50 years been among the world’s most prominent and visible activists for women’s rights.

  1. from the archives
    Ho Chi Minh in New YorkGloria Steinem digs into the rumors of the Vietnamese leader’s Manhattan past.
  2. from the archives
    The City on the Eve of DestructionGloria Steinem and Lloyd Weaver report from New York City on the night of Martin Luther King Jr.’s murder.
  3. from the archives
    The Souls of (Lower-Middle-Class) White FolkGloria Steinem on the emerging coalition of affluent Republicans and blue-collar whites.
  4. from the archives
    Vietnam in QueensFrom 1969, Gloria Steinem on the antiwar views of returning wounded soldiers.
  5. from the archives
    That Woman in City HallIt was no surprise when Ronnie Eldridge was named special assistant to the mayor. Some even think she should be mayor.
  6. from the archives
    “Hi There, I’m Ed Koch”Gloria Steinem profiles the charming, ambitious congressman who, less than a decade later, was elected mayor.
  7. from the archives
    Laboratory for Love StylesGloria Steinem on the rapidly evolving relationship dynamics of the early 1970s.
  8. from the archives
    The Politics of Sex and FashionRepressed fashion, wrote Gloria Steinem in 1970, often pairs with societal oppression.
  9. from the archives
    The War Against NixonGloria Steinem on the backlash in the days after the Kent State shootings.
  10. from the archives
    More Hot-Weather SpecialsGloria Steinem introduces a new abbreviation, neither Mrs. nor Miss, in this 1970 column. “How do you pronounce ‘Ms.’?”
  11. from the archives
    Getting Rich Off WelfareIn this story from the January 18, 1971, issue of New York, Gloria Steinem writes about the grim state of welfare services in New York City.
  12. from the archives
    Sisterhood“These deep and personal connections of women often ignore barriers … all the barriers that, in male or mixed society, seem so difficult to cross.”
  13. Women and Power“As Jacqueline Kennedy was quoted, ‘There are two kinds of women: those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.’”
  14. After Black Power, Women’s LiberationIf the WLM can feel solidarity with the hated middle class, and vice versa, then an alliance with poor women of all colors should be no problem.
  15. In Your Heart You Know He’s Nixon“As we learned who Kennedy was only after he died, we may learn who Nixon is only after he is President,” writes Gloria Steinem.
  16. Shirley Chisholm: Front-RunnerThe first black congresswoman to run for the White House was used to going it alone.