How Gloria Steinem’s lifechanging stay in India shaped her approach to feminism

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: entertainment-sports · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:21 GMT

The activist said her two years studying and travelling in country ‘made me who I am’‘We badly need to raise our boys more like our girls’: Gloria Steinem – a life in quotesGloria Steinem: A life in picturesWhen Gloria Steinem’s plane touched down in Bombay in 1957, she could not have known that her stay in India would become what she later called a “pivotal, life-dividing event [that] made me who I am”.She was 22, with a degree in government from Smith college and was travelling on a Chester Bowles fellowship. Continue reading...

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