50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution

A celebration of Ms.-the most startling, most audacious, most norm-breaking of the magazine’s groundbreaking pieces on women, men, politics (sexual and otherwise), marriage, family, education, work, motherhood, reproductive rights, as well as the best of the magazine’s fiction, poetry, and letters.

For the past five decades Ms. has been the nation’s most influential source of feminist ideas, and remains at the forefront of feminism today, affecting thought and culture with a younger than ever readership (ages 16-20!).

Ms. was the first U.S. magazine to:
feature prominent American women

demanding the repeal of laws that criminalized abortion explain and advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment rate

presidential candidates on women’s issues feature domestic violence and sexual harassment on its cover, long before either

were widely understood or acknowledged commission

and publish a national study on date rape

Here is the best reporting, fiction, and advertising, decade by decade, as well as the best photographs and features that reveal and reflect the changes set in motion by Ms., along with the iconic covers that galvanized readers.

A partial listing of the essays, profiles, conversations and features include: Alice Walker, Anita Hill, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, as well as fiction and poetry by Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Adrienne Rich, Sandra Cisneros, and Margaret Atwood, among many others.