Ms: The New Magazine for Women (Preview Issue.)


Item Number: 4338

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $300

Online Close: May 25, 2023 5:00 PM PDT

Bid History: 2 bids - Item Sold!

Description

Ms: The New Magazine for Women (Preview Issue).    The iconic preview issue of Ms.appeared on Newsstands was  January 1, 1972.   The goddess Kali is the cover image. 


This landmark feminist publication was "written for all women, everywhere, in every occupation and profession - women with deep, diverse ambitions, and those who have not yet had a chance to formulate ambition - women who are wives, mothers, and grandmothers, or none of these - women who want to be fully a female person and proud of it.


In brief, women who want to humanize politics, business, education, the arts, and sciences. in the home, the community, and the nation.


Cover art by Miriam Wosk [1947-2010] depicts a frantic eight-armed pregnant woman struggling to satisfy the many demands of her work, marriage, and motherhood.



  • 128 pages including such articles as
    De-Sexing the English Language
    Men's Cycles (They Have Them Too, You Know)
    Down With Sexist Upbringing
    We Have Had Abortions
    Why Women Fear Success
    My Mother, The Dentist
    How To Write Your Own Marriage Contract
    The Black Family and Feminism - A Conversation with Eleanor Holmes Norton
    The Sexual Revolution Wasn't Our War
    Can Women Love Women
    The Birth of Individual Architecture


An extraordinary piece of American feminist history that challenged, changed and expanded women's lives. 

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