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Gloria Marie Steinem: The First Wave Of Feminism

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Located on the western end of Lake Erie, the rapidly growing Toledo, OH was birth place to Gloria Marie Steinem. Born in the spring & middle of the Great Depression in 1934, on March 25. Her mother Ruth was of Scottish/German decent & her father Leo Steinem of Jewish background & German/Polish decent. Gloria already had activism in her genes. Her paternal grandmother Pauline Steinem riding the first wave of feminism as an educational committee chairwoman for the National Woman Suffrage Association & a delegate to the International Council of Women, among other involve-ment. Gloria had an impoverished upbringing, living & travelling in a trailer for her father’s business as an antiques salesmen. Her father was primarily & at times, the sole

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