Redstockings Disclosed Gloria Steinhem’s CIA Cover-Up [press release]

New Paltz, New York: Redstockings, 1975. Offset on newsprint. 16 pp. 11 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. Small closed tear at crease, toning commensurate with age; very good. Item #10361

Redstockings rigorously documented disclosure of Gloria Steinhem’s connections with the CIA, couched within a larger critique of liberal feminism.

Redstockings was a radical feminist group founded in New York in 1969 by Ellen Willis and Shulamith Firestone following the dissolution of New York Radical Women. The organization quickly dissolved; however it reformed in 1973 and in 1975 published the classic anthology of radical feminist writing Feminist Revolution and this newspaper on Gloria Steinhem’s links to the CIA. 

The press release provides extensive documentation of Steinhem’s CIA connections, including her employment with and leadership of Independent Research Service, a CIA front that published dossiers of Communist youth festivals abroad and rosy reports on the state of race relations in mid-century America. Redstockings goes on to document how Steinhem downplayed and covered up her involvement with the CIA-funded organization, the dubious corporate funding behind Steinhem’s magazine of liberal feminism, Ms., and the CIA’s efforts to promote liberalism and attack radicalism in the feminist movement. 

A particularly scarce document of the rift between radical and liberal feminism containing well-substantiated and explosive accusations.

OCLC locates five holdings as of October 2024. 

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