WWN Book Club Discussion - Special Women’s History Month Edition

Event time: 
Monday, March 6, 2017 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Dow Hall See map
370 Temple Street, Room 106
Event description: 

Join us for the Women’s History Month edition of the WWN Book Club. This meeting we’ll be reading My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem. We hope you will join us for a great discussion. New members are always welcome!

To RSVP, go to: https://bmsweb.med.yale.edu/tms/tms_enrollments.offerings?p_crs_id=5657. 

Book Description: 

Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. When she was a young girl, her father would pack the family in the car every fall and drive across country searching for adventure and trying to make a living. The seeds were planted: Gloria realized that growing up didn’t have to mean settling down. And so began a lifetime of travel, of activism and leadership, of listening to people whose voices and ideas would inspire change and revolution.

My Life on the Road is the moving, funny, and profound story of Gloria’s growth and also the growth of a revolutionary movement for equality—and the story of how surprising encounters on the road shaped both. From her first experience of social activism among women in India to her work as a journalist in the 1960s; from the whirlwind of political campaigns to the founding of Ms. magazine; from the historic 1977 National Women’s Conference to her travels through Indian Country—a lifetime spent on the road allowed Gloria to listen and connect deeply with people, to understand that context is everything, and to become part of a movement that would change the world.