"When its preview issue hit newsstands in December 1971, its provocative cover made clear this was a magazine that would challenge the eras prevailing notion that women's publications should be devoted to high fashion and weight-loss tips.... For the cover, she and her collaborators chose artist Miriam Wosk's illustration of a blue-skinned, eight-armed, multitasking and pregnant woman dancing on a grassy hill in ruby heels, with a black-and-white cat perched near her right ankle.... Miriam arrived at this way of showing a woman patterned on Krishna, the Indian god with many arms. Making her blue was a way of making her universal. She has a baby in her tummy, she has an iron and a typewriter, a mirror to symbolize how good she has to look, a telephone. All these ways in which women were supposed to behave, which is of course why she has tears running down her cheeks." - Smithsonian See pics for wear. Selling as is.