serinlea reviewed on 3/21/2011

This was the first explicitly "feminist" book I ever read. I was 16, and it was a free copy that got into my hands somehow...the organization that was giving them out (don't remember who) had a little cardstock letter of their own glued to one of the blank pages in the front.

The book itself is primarily a self-help book and the psychological autobiography of one of America's most prominent second-wave feminists. Steinem talks about a lot of woo concepts like "parenting your inner child" that I didn't agree with then and still don't today.

But what a world of difference it was to read the words of someone who didn't constantly assume, in the back of her mind, that "men and women are equal but different, and men's gifts make them the leaders" the way my church taught.

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