When Gloria Steinem died in the autumn of 2024, the world paused to trace the roots of a feminism that had always felt larger than its American origins. Long before she became an icon, a young Steinem spent formative years in India in the late 1950s, where she encountered gender's many faces and recognized in them a single, structural truth. That encounter did not give her answers so much as it gave her the right questions — ones that would guide half a century of advocacy toward a feminism built on solidarity across difference rather than the export of a single vision.