Iconic preview issue of Ms. signed and inscribed by its co-founder, Gloria Steinem, upon front cover. This landmark feminist publication was "written for all women, everywhere, in every occupation and profession - women with deep, diverse ambitions, and those who have not yet had a chance to formulate ambition - women who are wives, mothers, and grandmothers, or none of these - women who want to be fully a female person and proud of it. In brief, women who want to humanize politics, business, education, the arts and sciences... in the home, the community , and the nation." - p113. Cover art by Miriam Wosk [1947-2010] depicts frantic eight-armed pregnant woman struggling to satisfy the many demands of her work, marriage and motherhood. 128 pages including such articles as: De-Sexing the English Language; Men's Cycles (They Have Them Too, You Know); Down With Sexist Upbringing; We Have Had Abortions; Why Women Fear Success; My Mother, The Dentist; How To Write Your Own Marriage Contract; The Black Family and Feminism - A Conversation with Eleanor Holmes Norton; The Sexual Revolution Wasn't Our War; Can Women Love Women; The Birth of Individual Architecture; and more. Interesting ads. Complete and unmarked with average wear. Signature and inscription appear more clearly than is indicated in our photos. A very special piece of American feminist history. Book
