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  "id": 5406630,
  "title": "Gloria Steinem personified America’s feminist movement | Moira Donegan",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/gloria-steinem-personified-americas-feminist-movement-moira-donegan",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-03T19:47:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/03/gloria-steinem-us-feminist-movement"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Gloria Steinem, a pioneering feminist activist, passed away at the age of 92 on Wednesday at her residence in New York. Once known as a distant concept, feminism had become a symbol of her influence and the movement's aspirations and setbacks. Born into a poor, itinerant family in Ohio during the 1930s and 40s, Steinem encountered the suffrage movement, which secured women's voting rights less than two decades prior, as a distant relic of the past. However, encountering the harsh realities of life gradually radicalized her views about gender inequality. Steinem attended Smith College and pursued a postgraduate fellowship in India in 1957, where she had an illegal abortion in London. Her exposure to the Women's Liberation movement in 1969, while working as a journalist for New York magazine, further fueled her commitment to feminist causes.",
  "summary": "The activist made the movement mainstream – and became a receptacle for its hopes and disappointments Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92 ‘We badly need to raise our boys more like our girls’: Gloria Steinem – a life in quotes By the time she died on Wednesday, at 92 years old at her home in New York, Gloria Steinem was synonymous with feminism, a kind of human mascot…",
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}