Gloria Steinmen and her Speech

1. Who is speaking?
-Gloria Steinmen is speaking. (Gloria Steinmen’s Address to the Women of America)

2. Why was/is is the speech important to society?
-The speech is important because it addresses the racial and gender issues, and problems that the past and current society face.

3. Why do you feel it is important or interesting?
-I feel this speech is important or interesting because the racial and gender issues Gloria Steinmen discusses are real, and need to be solved. The way people look should not categorize them or limit them in life.

4. What is the emotion, mood, tone, personality, and feeling of the speech?
The emotion, mood, tone, personality, or feeling of the speech was powerful, and meaningful, but calm.

5. What is intonation, emphasis, what is loud, stressed, or soft. Where are the pauses?
-The volume of the speech was kept the same almost throughout the speech, but emphasis was placed on certain words using slight pauses. Gloria Steinmen puts emphasis on the words and phrases, “revolution”, “sex”, “race”, “easy visible differences”, “there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned”, and “humanism”

6. What do you FEEL should be loud or soft, long pause or rushed?
-I feel that the speech as a whole should be spoken at a somewhat slow pace, so that emphasis can be placed on the important words and ideas of the speech. Emphasis with volume and pauses should be placed on the words; reform, visible differences, organizing humans, and humanism.

7. Is there a call to action? When listening to it what are key/emphasized words?
-The call to action is that people should not be categorized and limited in life because of their race or gender.

8. How does it make you feel?
-The speech makes me feel that society has problems that concern race and gender that they really need to fix.

9. How do you imagine that the audience felt?
-I would imagine that the audience felt strongly, for or against, about the issues she addressed. Supporters of her, probably strongly agreed with what she said. Whereas others might think what she was saying was radical and unheard of.

10. Could there be another interpretation of the speech?
-I don’t think there could be another interpretation of the speech. It’s a clearly about how our society organizes people based on physical appearance.

11. Write/find a short bio, of the person giving the speech.
-Gloria Steinmen was born on March 25, 1934, in Toledo, Ohio. She attended Smith College and graduated in 1956. She is most well known as a feminist. She is an author, journalist, and social and political activist. She fought for equality, not just for women, but also for people of all races and genders. She formed the National Women’s Political Caucus, and is a breast cancer survivor.