How Gloria Steinem’s magazine became the voice of the women’s movement

Ms. magazine, which Gloria Steinem co-founded in the early 1970s, covered issues that rarely received mainstream attention, from abortion to economic inequality.

When the preview issue of Ms. magazine hit newsstands in December 1971, it entered a national media market that had spent decades telling American women how to socialize, how to dress, how to marry, how to raise children and how to please men.

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