Ms. at 40 Essay Contest - What do the iconic Ms. covers mean to you?

www.stanford.edu/group/gender/msat40/essaycontest.html

Ten $100 cash prizes will be awarded for the best short essays. Entries will be judged on originality,vision, awareness of feminist issues and quality of expression.

·         Check out 40 iconic Ms. covers from four decades of feminist reporting.

·         Write a 150-word essay that reflects on how it captured an era or moment, or how it may have shaped your own life.

·         Ten $100 cash prizes will be awarded for the best short essays. Entries will be judged on originality, vision, awareness of feminist issues and quality of expression.

·         Winning essays will be displayed alongside the Ms. covers on the Stanford campus in January 2012.

Save the date – January 26, 2012 – for the anniversary symposium at Stanford featuring Gloria Steinem.  Click here to visit the event page.

For Library collection of Ms. click here: http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/591652