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Ms. Magazine Celebrates 40 Years
Forty years ago, a new women’s magazine appeared on American newsstands promising to be a place where women could read about real women like themselves.
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The political pins on Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s kitchen wall in January 2012 are a visual testament to the feminist activism over the decades. (VOA - A. Phillips)
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October 1988. This issue, which was published in connection with the Olympic Games highlighted the increasingly prominent role of women in sports. (Courtesy of Ms. Magazine)
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Spring 2011. Ms. is still going strong, albeit in quarterly form, and with no advertisements. This issue confronted the FBI’s legal definition of rape dating from the 1920s. (Courtesy of Ms. Magazine)