Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions - Gloria Steinem , others

Written by Gloria Steinem, others
Read by Barrie Kreinik · Gabra Zackman, Gloria Steinem, Robin Miles Soneela Nankani,
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Release date: February 12, 2019
Duration: 14:17:02

An updated, as of 2019, third edition of the renowned feminist’s most diverse and timeless collection of essays, with a new foreword written by Emma Watson, and new material written and read by Gloria Steinem.

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions has sold over half a million copies since its original publication in 1983, acclaimed for its witty, warm, and life-changing view of the world, “as if women mattered.” Steinem’s truly personal writing is here, from the now-famous exposé, “I Was a Playboy Bunny,” to the moving tribute to her mother “Ruth’s Song (Because She Could Not Sing It)”. Her prescient essays on female genital mutilation and the difference between erotica and pornography that are still referenced and relevant today, and the hilarious satire, “If Men Could Menstruate” resonates as much as ever.

As Watson writes of Steinem in her foreword, “She makes what otherwise can be arduous and depressing reading into something not only relatable, but also enjoyable… Her plain common sense, calling things out as they are, will make you laugh out loud. This is her superpower.”

“One of activist Gloria Steinem’s “everyday rebellions” was to encourage other women to provide their voices in the narration of these essays. Narrators Barrie Kreinik, Gabra Zackman, Soneela Nankani, and Robin Miles each provide compelling narrations of the highly quotable words of a writer who cheerfully refers to herself as a radical feminist. Steinem’s influential ideas are made more persuasive by the carefully chosen and well-delivered postscripts and updates to her texts. While many of these essays were written several decades ago, they are still powerful and necessary inspiration for the contemporary listener.”—AudioFile