The Movement \;is the first oral histo ry of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the capt ivating individual voices of the people who lived it\, \;The Movement& nbsp\;tells the intimate inside story of what it felt like to be at the fo refront of the modern feminist crusade when women rejected thousands of ye ars of custom and demanded the freedom to be who they wanted and needed to be.
\nThis engaging history traces women&rsquo\;s awakening\, organ izing\, and agitating between 1963 and 1973 when a decentralized collectio n of people and events coalesced to create a spontaneous combustion. From Betty Friedan&rsquo\;s \;The Feminine Mystique \;to the undergroun d abortion network the Janes\, to Shirley Chisholm&rsquo\;s presidential c ampaign and Billie Jean King&rsquo\;s 1973 battle of the sexes\, Bingham a rtfully weaves together the fragments of that explosion person by person\, bringing to life the emotions of this personal\, cultural\, and political revolution. Artists and politicians\, athletes and lawyers\, Black and wh ite\, \;The Movement \;brings readers into the rooms where these w omen insisted on being treated as first-class citizens and\, in the proces s\, changed the fabric of American life.
\nAbout the Author: \;C lara Bingham is an award-winning journalist and the author of \;The Mo vement\, \;Witness to the Revolution\, \;Women on the Hill\, and t he co-writer of \;Class Action. A former Washington\, DC\, corresponde nt for \;Newsweek\, her writing has appeared in \;Vanity Fair\,&nb sp\;The Guardian\, and \;The Daily Beast\, among others. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York.
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