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Everyday Rebellions"
Gloria Steinem
Holt, Rhinehart and Winston
363 pages, $13.95
Riding the fringes of several
moving portraits of women's lives
or fragments of their lives, Gloria
Steinem delivers a message in her
first full-length book,
"Outrageous Acts and Everyday
Rebellions."
Most people hate message
books. I hate message books. But
Steinem does what is rarely done.
Steinem gives you a reason to
wade through the message you
might normally step around, and
then carry it with you.
The nuggets of Steinem's life,
and the verbatim replicas of other
women's lives, are worth sloshing
through the message. In true jour
nalistic style of concise prose and
active verbs, Steinem unfolds her
mother's tortured life in "Ruth's
Song (Because She Could Not
Sing It)." She hits you with the
memory of the lousiest job you
ever had in "I was a Playboy Bun
ny." And she'll spatter you with
the blood and guts that drove
Marilyn Monroe to suicide and
Linda Lovelace to sexual slavery.
And after she's picqued your in
terest, she'll slap in a few ser
mons. But even though the
message isn't sugar-coated, it
does grab your attention once you
begin reading it. The blood and
guts she uses to profile Monroe
and Lovelace are only a prelude to
the blood and guts in "The Inter
national Crime of Genital Mutila
tion," which she and Robin
Morgan co-author.
Steinem echoes her pro-choice
stance in "If Hitler Were Alive,
Whose Side Would He Be On."
And her sense of humour in "Rx
Fantasies: For Temporary Relief of
Pain Due to Injustice" is a good
balance and a nice "how to"
guide for daydreaming.
But of all of Steinem's sermonet
tes, my favorite has to be "If Men
Could Menstruate." Steinem's up
front honesty and sardonic wit
carry "If Men Could Menstruate.”
A few writers could stand to take
note and marvel at that ability.
The lines are tremendously fun
ny (especially if you've been
through them) and probably more
than a little uncomfortable for a
lot of folks.
“Men would brag about how
long and how much.
Sanitary supplies would be
federally funded and free. Of
course some men would still pay
for the prestige of such commer
cial brands as Paul Newman Tam
pons and loe Namath lock Sheilds
— For those light bachelor days.'
Street guys would invent slang
(‘He's a three-pad man') and give
fives ’ on the corner with some ex
change like, ‘Man, you lookin'
good!"
Yeah, man, I'm on thg rag.' "
Steipem first Wrote "If Men
Could Menstruate" in 1978 for Ms.
magazine. Most of the chapters in
"Outrageous Acts and Everyday
Rebellions" are previously
published, "old" material.
But Steinem's "old" material is
still fresh. Maybe it's the honesty.
Maybe it's the way she deals with
subjects most people won't
approach.
Maybe it's just that it's a good
book that will make you squirm,
think, cry and laugh — even if you
don't want to.
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Angelo's search for justice with
the help of his older brother
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