In her highly acclaimed, long-awaited first book, Gloria Steinem speaks out

provocatively and personally through an exceptional collection of her best

writings--from her now classic (but still current, still lunny) account

of becoming a Playboy Bunny to the autobiographical "Ruth s Song," a moving

tribute to her mother written especially for this book.

Here are essays that give a pnwerfid voice to the experiences, struggles

and triumphs of all women, yet are at the same time an intimate portrait of

Gloria Steinem herself. In her profiles of fumous women, she catches

Pat NLxoll at her most candid and revealing...uncovers the real person behind

Jackie Onassis~s media image...and shows, in a shocking piece on

Linda Lovelace, how lethal pornography is to women.

Whether it s searing observations of weJl-klmWn political fignres nr

hilarit)us satire as in "if Met) Could Menstruate," there is no subject in this

stirring, important bonk that Gloria Steinem does not make newly fresh and

vital for all of us--men and womcn alike.