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Gloria Steinem, Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities

2021-05-22T11:01:48.119Z


The 87-year-old writer and journalist is one of the 'mothers' of modern feminism Writer Gloria Steinem at the 2020 Athena Film Festival Awards, New York Lars Niki / Getty Images for the Athena Film The American writer and journalist Gloria Steinem has been awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities, awarded this Wednesday in Oviedo. At 87, she is one of the mothers of modern feminism, a key piece in the second wave of the movement in the United St


Writer Gloria Steinem at the 2020 Athena Film Festival Awards, New York Lars Niki / Getty Images for the Athena Film

The American writer and journalist Gloria Steinem has been awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities, awarded this Wednesday in Oviedo.

At 87, she is one of the

mothers

of modern feminism, a key piece in the second wave of the movement in the United States, which fought for the approval of the ERA - the Equal Rights Amendment - in all 50 states of the country.

The jury highlighted that, over six decades, his activism, "marked by independence and rigor, has been the driving force behind one of the great revolutions of contemporary society."

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Every fall when she was a child, her father would drive the entire family into the car and drive around the United States looking for work. Hence, says Steinem, do not conceive of your life without movement. He has never conceived it. In those trips, in which everything was possibilities, and in which freedom was everywhere, the seed of his necessary and effective insubordination to a system, the patriarchal, was planted, which claimed the opposite. And he could not with her.

The Princess of Asturias winner has written tirelessly. Founder, along with Dorothy Pitman Hughes, of her own magazine, the revulsive

Ms.

, She is responsible for a fight from the word in all kinds of headlines, from

Esquire

to

New York Magazine

, where she served as a political columnist, through

Cosmopolitan

, publication in which he made a brilliant and scandalous interview with John Lennon. He spoke openly about abortion, making his testimony one of the first to make visible how painful it is to interrupt a pregnancy and, at the same time, what is necessary to be able to “direct” his life the way he wanted to do it.

Author of the memoirs

My life on the road

(Alpha Decay, 2016), the only one of her works translated into Spanish, and of at least seven other titles, including

Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

, Gloria Steinem always distrusted the institution of marriage - although she ended up marrying at the age of 66, to the actor's father Christian Bale. She has always remained faithful to the principles of a movement for equality that grew with her, from her first experience in feminist activism in India to her work as a journalist in the aforementioned

Ms.

, which sold out its first 300,000 copies in eight days. , showing that the world was waiting for her.

Gloria Steinem during the 1975 International Women's Day march in New York City. Bettmann / Bettmann Archive

In an interview with this newspaper in 2016, Steinem declared: “I was always aware that there was an imbalance and an injustice.

But I thought I could overcome it individually.

There was always a group of female writers in New York helping each other and advising each other on which editor might be more reasonable.

But I didn't realize that this could be changed until the women of the anti-Vietnam War movement and the civil rights movement - movements that our generation loved, but in which women were still largely in a traditional role. They started to rebel against this and say, 'Wait a minute, we must have an autonomous movement for women.'

His figure gained relevance beyond his writings with

Mrs America

, the FX series, broadcast by HBO Spain, which narrates the gestation of the constitutional amendment that would guarantee equal rights between the sexes in the United States of the 1970s.

The narrative axis is in Phyillis Schafly, the furious anti-feminist played by Cate Blanchett, whose reactionary positions Steinem fights in the foreground.

Portrayed by Rose Byrne, the journalist and founder of

Ms.

magazine, she

is allergic to marriage and has a nomadic spirit.

The real Steinem called the series "ridiculous", for approaching the plot as "a fight between women."

Rose Byrne as Gloria Steinem and Tracey Ullman as Betty Friedan in the series' Mrs.

America'.

Last year the award distinguished in this category the Guadalajara International Book Fair (Mexico), the most important in the Spanish-speaking world, and the Hay Festival, which started in the late 1980s at Hay-On- Wye, a small Welsh town, and in these decades it has become an encounter with headquarters in countries such as Mexico, Spain or Colombia. It rewards "the work of cultivating and improving the sciences and disciplines considered as humanistic activities and what is related to the means of social communication in all its expressions". And he has recognized in previous editions the Prado Museum, the journalist Alma Guillermoprieto, the comedy group Les Luthiers, the photographers James Nachtwey and Annie Leibovitz, the thinker Emilio Lledó, the cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado

Quino

, the videogame creator Shigeru Miyamoto, Google or EL PAÍS. The award is endowed with a sculpture by Joan Miró, a diploma, a badge and 50,000 euros.

The jury that awarded the award was chaired by Víctor García de la Concha and made up of Luis María Anson Oliart, Rosa María Calaf Solé, Irene Cano Piquero, Gabriela Cañas Pita de la Vega, Emilio Casares Rodicio, Aurora Egido Martínez, Miguel Falomir Faus , Elsa González Díaz de Ponga, Álex Grijelmo García, Alma Guillermo Prieto, José Guirao Cabrera, Miguel Ángel Liso Tejada, Emilio Lledó Íñigo, Helena López de Hierro d'Aubarède, Emilio Morenatti Fernández, Enrique Pascual Pons, José Manuel Pérez Tornero, Ana Santos Aramburo, María Sefidari Huici and Alberto Anaut González (secretary). Steinem's candidacy was proposed by Socorro Suárez Lafuente, professor and coordinator of the TransLIT Research Group at the University of Oviedo.

Source: elparis

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