Gloria Steinem, feminist writer and campaigner, dies at 92
The American journalist, whose 1963 undercover reporting as a Playboy Bunny helped launch her career, died at her home in New York on 2 September.
Gloria Steinem died on 2 September at her home in New York City, aged 92, according to a statement shared on her Instagram account, which said she "passed away peacefully... surrounded by some of the many who loved her", as reported by The Guardian.
Steinem became known in 1963 for an exposé in which she worked undercover as a Playboy Bunny, an early piece of journalism that fed into a career spent writing and campaigning on discrimination against women, according to The Guardian. Over six decades she travelled the United States campaigning for women's liberation and against racism and segregation, according to Télérama, which described her as an "infatigable icône féministe".
In 2019, on the publication of her memoirs, Steinem gave an interview to Télérama in which she said of women's condition:
Nous, les femmes, ne sommes pas destinées à être subordonnées ou soumises.
Gloria Steinem, to Télérama, 2019
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