The Movement is a comprehensive a nd engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement\ , including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes. The Moveme nt is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern femi nist movement. Through the captivating individual voices of the people who lived it\, The Movement tells the intimate inside story of what it felt like to be at the forefront of the modern feminist crusade when wo men rejected thousands of years of custom and demanded the freedom to be w ho they wanted and needed to be.
\nThis engaging history traces wome n&rsquo\;s awakening\, organizing\, and agitating between 1963 and 1973 wh en a decentralized collection of people and events coalesced to create a s pontaneous combustion. From Betty Friedan&rsquo\;s The Feminine Mystiq ue to the underground abortion network the Janes\, to Shirley Chishol m&rsquo\;s presidential campaign and Billie Jean King&rsquo\;s 1973 battle of the sexes\, Bingham artfully weaves together the fragments of that exp losion person by person\, bringing to life the emotions of this personal\, cultural\, and political revolution. Artists and politicians\, athletes a nd lawyers\, Black and white\, The Movement brings readers into t he rooms where these women insisted on being treated as first-class citize ns and\, in the process\, changed the fabric of American life.
\nAbo ut the Author: Clara Bingham is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Movement\, Witness to the Revolution\, Women on the Hill\, and the co-writer of Class Action. A former Washington\, DC\, c orrespondent for Newsweek\, her writing has appeared in Vanit y Fair\, The Guardian\, and The Daily Beast\, among others. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York.
\nThis program is sponsored by the Friends of Duncan L ibrary and the Friends of Be atley Central Library.
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