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Ms. (magazine) article:

Origins
The first preview of Ms. magazine was published in December 1971 by New York magazine. The cover depicts a woman who resembles an Indian goddess with blue skin and eight arms holding a clock, skillet, typewriter, rake, mirror, telephone, steering wheel, and an iron. 300,000 test copies of the magazine sold out in three days and generated 26,000 subscription orders within the next few weeks. Steinem and Letty Cottin Pogrebin co-founded Ms.Magazine in 1972, during the Second-Wave feminist movement. At the time Ms. was first published, much of the feminist movement was driven toward fighting against the social and family-life norms expected of women.

The magazine was seen as a voice for women by women, a voice that had been hidden from and left out of mainstream media. Ms. Magazine's first publication as an independent issue included articles about women who had experience with abortions, promoting the removal of sexist wording from the English language, and literature focused on helping women realize they could stand up for themselves against social norms. Future issues continued to include articles on the topics brought up by feminists of the early 1970s and later.

Co-founder Gloria Steinem has explained the motivation for starting Ms. magazine, stating, "I realized as a journalist that there really was nothing for women to read that was controlled by women, and this caused me along with a number of other women to start Ms. magazine." Steinem wanted a publication that would address issues that modern women cared about instead of just domestic topics such as fashion and housekeeping. Steinem originally wanted Ms. to be a newsletter but was convinced to make it into a magazine by her peers. Patricia Carbine thought a magazine was better because of the money from advertisers and that it could reach their audience with its portable, visually pleasing, easy format.

As to the origin of the name chosen for the magazine, she has stated, "We were going to call it 'Sojourner', after Sojourner Truth, but that was perceived as a travel magazine. Then we were going to call it 'Sisters', but that was seen as a religious magazine. We settled on 'Ms.' because it was symbolic and also it was short, which is good for a logo."

Liberty Media for Women
Over the years the magazine has featured articles written by and about many women and men at the forefront of business, politics, activism, and journalism. Writers have included Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Susan Faludi. The cover has featured Hillary Clinton, Angelina Jolie, Wanda Sykes, Sarah Jones, Jane Fonda, Charlize Theron, and Queen Noor. The magazine's investigative journalism broke several landmark stories on topics including overseas sweatshops, sex trafficking, the wage gap, the glass ceiling, date rape, and domestic violence.

In 2013, Gloria Steinem was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama for her activism in women's equality.

In 2017, Ms. celebrated its 45th anniversary of publication. In honor of this event, Ms. made a reference to their very first issue in 1972 that featured Wonder Woman on the cover. This choice was based on Wonder Woman's belief in "sisterhood and equality", something Ms. states is a "driving value" for feminist beliefs not only when the magazine first began, but in today's society. Because of this, Ms. made the decision to showcase Wonder Woman on their 45th anniversary issue in 2017, as they have done in the past for other anniversary issues.

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 * I think it would be beneficial to break up the information in each of the sub sections (origins, historical milestones, recent ownership) and add additional small headings for each of the paragraphs.
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