50 Years of Ms.

The New York Times Book Review Editor''s Choice • A celebration of Ms.—the most startling most audacious most norm-breaking of the magazine''s groundbreaking pieces on women men politics (sexual and otherwise) marriage family education work motherhood and reproductive rights as well as the best of the magazine’s fiction poetry and letters. • Featuring Billie Jean King Alison Bechdel and Audre Lorde among many others.. “I’ve been a Ms. reader since its earliest days. The magazine’s bold boundary-breaking reporting has motivated me infuriated me and inspired me. And now this one extraordinary book—50 Years of Ms.—captures it all.” —Jane Fonda actor and activist“Ms.—in 1972—normalized being a woman abortion and all. And here we are 50 years later needing that now more than ever.” —Sarah Silverman comedian actor and writer. For the past five decades Ms. has been the nation’s most influential source of feminist ideas and it remains at the forefront of feminism today affecting thought and culture with a younger-than-ever readership (ages 16-20!).. Ms. was the first U.S. magazine to:  feature prominent American women demanding the repeal of laws that criminalized abortionexplain and advocate for the Equal Rights Amendmentrate presidential candidates on women’s issuesfeature domestic violence and sexual harassment on its cover long before either was widely understood or acknowledgedcommission and publish a national study on date rapeHere is the best reporting fiction and advertising decade by decade as well as the best photographs and features that reveal and reflect the changes set in motion by Ms. along with the iconic covers that galvanized readers. . Here are essays profiles conversations with and features by: Alice Walker Cynthia Enloe Pauli Murray Nancy Pelosi bell hooks Eleanor Holmes Norton Brittney Cooper and Joy Harjo as well as fiction and poetry by Toni Morrison Joyce Carol Oates Adrienne Rich Rita Dove and Sharon Olds and many others.